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"As a man thinketh . . —the
trouble is, sometimes, to get man to
think at all.
Two percent of mankind, so it is
estimated, do the world's thinking.
The two percent own the earth in
consequence. They know what they
want — they know how to go after
it—and—they get it!
Quoting Berton Braley, in “Things
as they are’*:
“If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work night and day for it,
Give up your time and your peace
and your sleep for it,
If only desire for it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold other things tawdry
and cheap for it,
If life seems all empty and useless
without it
And all that you dream and you
scheme is about it.
If you'll glady sweat for it,
Fret for it,
Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or of
Man for it,
If you’ll simply go after that thing
that you want,
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern
pertinacity,
If neither cold poverty, famished ana
gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing
that you want,
If dogged and grim you beseige and
beset it,
You’ll get it!”
* * *
In a democracy, we do not dic
tate what you shall do — but we do
demand that you do something.
* * *
The strongest point about a weak
man is his resourcefulness in finding
excuses for his weakness,
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Chance is the word invented to
explain the known effect of every
unknown cause.* * *
Cheerfulness is the antidote
for fear, grief and anxiety —
life’s three greatest scourges.* * *
HE GOT THE IDEA
He was a little lad in a mountain
school and he insisted on saying,
“I ain’t gwine thar.”
“You must not say that,” correct
ed his exasperated teacher. “Listen:
I am not going there, you are not
going there, he is not going there,
we are not going there, they are not
going there. Do you understand?"
“Yassum,” said the boy “thar
ain’t nobody gwine thar.”
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The Ad of the Week
From the Times-Gazetto
FOR SALE—Twin beds. One al
most new.
* * *
Of all the sad surprises
There is nothing to compare
With treading in the darkness
On a step which is not there.
. * * *
Present day copywriters who com
pose the ads extolling the virtue
of tea would do well to heed the
words of a Chinese Mystic of the
tang dynasty: “The first cup of tea
moistens my lips and throat. The
second shatters my loneliness. The
third causes the wrongs of life to
fade gently from my recollection.
The fourth purifies my soul. The
fifth lifts me to the realm of the un
winking gods,"* * *
EGO DEFLATION
Dr. Joseph Parker made he fol
lowing retort to one who came and
inflatedly described himself as a
self-made man. “Sir" answered Dr.
Parker, “you relieve the Lord of a
'great responsibility.”
Another Bad Night
Could Get No Rest
To the thousands who toss, night
after night, on sleepless beds and to
whose eyes slumber will not come.
To those who> sleep in a kind of
• way, but whose rest is broken by
bad drcams and nightmares.
To those who wake up in the
morning aS tired aS on going to bed,
We offer in Milburn’s Health and
Nerve Pills a remedy to help soothe
and calm, the nerves and bring them
back to h perfect condition, hnd
When this is done there should bo no
4 more sleepless nights due to shat
tered nerves.
The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
Note to engineers building the
1940 automobile models: One- way
to reduce motor accidents is to build
cars so they won’t go any faster than
the average driver thinks.* * *
PEELING APPLES
I never peel red apples but I see
You at my knee—
Your tiny face all puckered in a
queer grimace
Watching the knife go round and
round.
“Mother make me an apple ring?”
Strange—
To remember such a trivial thing!
Burd Bennett Skemp* * *
FREE ADVICE
Thru the thoughtfulness of one of
our readers, we are privileged to pass
along this free advice story. It is not
new but its point is so obvious that'
it is worth repeating.
If any of our readers have similar
brief ‘classics’ of days gone by, we’d
like to have them to pass along,
A man opened a fish store and or
dered a new sign of which he was
very proud. It read: “Fresh Fish
For Sale Here.”
“Wliat did you put the ‘fresh’ in
for?” said his first customer. “You
would not sell them if they were not
fresh, would you?”
He painted out the word, leaving
just “Fish for sale here.”
“Why do you say ‘here’? asked his
second customer. “You are not sell
ing them anywhere else, are you?”
So he rubbed out everything ex
cept - “Fish for Sale.”
“Why use ‘for sale’ asked the next
customer. “You wouldn't have fish
here unless they were for sale, would
you?”
So he rubbed out everything but
the word ‘fish’ remarking: “Well, no
one can find fault with that sign,
now.”
A moment later another customer
came in — “I don’t see the object in
having that sign ‘fish’ up there,”
said he, “when you can smell them a
mile away.”
—one very successful man says:
“A good rule to follow is this: Lis
ten to all the ‘free advice’ that folks
want to give you and then use your
own judgment.”# * *
From life’s books of tears and lau
ghter
I have gained this little bit of
lore,
I’d rather have a morning after
Than never have a night before.
* * a
Use words to express ideas—not
banalities.* * *
prankish problems
Answer to Prankish Problem No.
75 which appeared in this space in
our last issue: 5,7 29 6 inches.
Prankish Problem No. 76: A tra
veller is able to make only 10 miles
per hour going from one city to an
other. On their return, however, he
makes the trip at a rate of 15 miles
per hour. What is his average speed
for the round trip?
(Watch for the correct answer in
this space in our next issue.)* * *
DON’T WORRY
There is a lot of difference be
tween thinking and worrying. Every
business man must spend much time
thinking but he has no time worry
ing.
Thinking develops ideas. It iplans
big things. It builds. Thinking is
constructive. It makes men strong
but as soon as thinking becomes dis
organized, jumbled and confused,
worry begins.
Worry tears down, destroys and
weakens. It results from a confus
ed and shuffled mind or body in need
of repair.
With a calm mind and sound body
thinking does not weaken a man.
Worry is not the result of think
ing — it is the result of trying to
think under the wrong conditions.He #
SIMPLICITUDES
—-women, according to news reports,
are now marrying younger than they
used to — and apparently, much
more often.
—it is not the wear and tear on the
mind that wears it out - it is the
rust of disuse that takes the toll,
—most carpenters will saw into a
nail now and then - but he is indeed
dumb who will saw thru it.
—'silence is golden’ - as the folks
who have had to pay hush-money
well know.* * *
Sing a song of six pence
Never tell a lie
This column seems to be
Just four lines shy.
—the colonel
And that first apple — but why say more.
# * * * * * * *
He's a wise guy who has his will made.
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Can ye your cherries while ye may, old time’s allying, **** * ***
John Bull is the king bee. That’s why so many people don’t
like him.
********
Those cool days of last week gave Ontario a fine respite from
the extereme heat.
** ******
From meddlers and mixers and muddlers may kind Providence
keep us forever free!
********
Those cool nights were just the thing for sleeping but not so
good for the corn.********
Hitler is reported to have been giving lectures on architecture.
On peace building, suppose?* ****** *
An open field or the top of a load of grain or hay is not a de
sirable location during a thunderstorm.
«*»•****
Fall wheat harvest is about over for another year. This season
it has proven a good stand and of a good quality.********
Said Observant Bill, of bright renown
“How well-used paint improved our town.” ********
There’s all the difference in the world between adjustment and
compromise. The one leads to progress, the other to trouble.
One swallow doesn’t make a summer; nor does one commodity
make a nation prosperous, especially when other nations have about
all they need of that very thing.
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Did Colonel Drew get off side when he told some people out
there in British Columbia that all Japanese should be driven out
of Canada?
********
Once to dress and have a beau
Was a woman’s sole ambition;
But now to dust and get a job
Is her healthy intuition.
********
With this grief our soul is laden
As we rhyme in accents rude,
Why a thousand dollar maiden
Picks up with a ten cent dude.
********
If Happiness you would not burk,
After breakfast go to work.
After lunchean rest a while
After supper’ walk a mile.
********
We cannot but wonder if Britain is running her head into an
other noose by trying to bribe Germany from making war. How
can successful bargaining be carried on with people who do not keep
their word?********
Exeter seems to have reached the place where sneak thieves
operate with impunity. Those who so think may as well rethink
the. situation. The sneaks are better known than they believe. Jus
tice may appear th lame duck at noonday, but by sunset she is sure
to- have overtaken the guilty.********
PLEASE NOTE
Wheat last week dropped to its lowest price level since 1588,
yet we remember the day when sobed gravity declared that all busi
ness should be on the wheat standard. And never did folk try harder
to control prices.********
GIVE THEM A CHANCE
All that the business men want is a chance to carry on. Last
week as the word crept about that there was a reasonable prospect
of the peaceful settlement of the Dantzig mess, business leaped for
ward like a giant refreshed. War, as anyone knows, is the great
interfere!’ in human affairs. It stands disastrously in the way of
business enterprise. When a major war threatens, business draws
back from its ventures. But war is but one of such meddlers tho’
about the greatest. We must mention among other obstructionists
in this hegard partisan special-interest politics. Along with this
goes the activity of a certain form of uplifter who arrogates to him
self the control of reasonable men’s activities. Still another nui
sance is the man who would hamstring every enterprise just because
it is big, bigger than lie himself can take in. Business prospers
where there is liberty based on sound common sense and a healthy-
minded public opinion.» *******
BRITAIN GETS HER STRIDE
Britain’s wordis is being heeded once more as she speaks in the
councils of the nations. For a while she heeded the out-and-out
.pacifists, only to find that many of the pacifists had an axe to grind.
For a while she followed the advice of those who asked her to lead
the way in disarmament only to find that other nations were mean
while seeking her destruction. She tried the way of appeasement,
only to discover that she was opening her tent to every camel’s head
that other nations were poking into her affairs. Almost tpo late sue
woke up to take, life as it is and conditions as they are and argued
•with the east wind by putting on her oovercoat. 'She has not laid a
single gun or built an airplane or trained a soldier with the inten
tion of harming any man of any colour or of any clime. Her tre
mendous effort in the way of armament has been in behalf of all
who would carry on their affairs without making nuisances of
themselves. Her every interest lies in the way of peace. She has
armed herself that peace may be established. If fight she must it
will be for freedom, without which life is not worth living. She
cannot do less than she is doing and be self-respecting.
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WE NEED NOT FEAR
When it is urged that Canada should go the limit in welcoming
the new life offering itself from Europe, it is urged by some that
the standard of living of the new comers is not as high as Cana
dians are accustomed to. There need be no fears on that point.
One hundred years ago the standard of living in Ontario was not as
elaborate as it is today. Wholesome, noble simplicity marked those
early years. The new arrivals of those times had to make nearly
everything they used. Our museums tell this story. Gradually
these Canadians had more under their hands. Very gradually the
general standard of life rose to its present height. History is re
peating itself in regard to the new comers from Europe of the last
two decades. European workers in the tobacco and sugar beet
fields of Elgin and Norfolk for the most part illustrate this point.
As the European workers have had more to spend they have invest
ed at least a fair proportion of their earnings in the things that
make life comfortable and even elegant. We cannot expect these
new comers to do in a decade what our fathers had to struggle for a
lifetime to accomplish.********
AN OPPORTUNITY
Knocking at our national doors stand some of the soundest
capital and best brawn and most highly trained brains of Europe.
Conditions have been made so difficult for these self-respecting folk
in the land of their birth that they simply cannot but seek other
shores and other governments. Some of these mon saw the evil
day coming and sent their capital ahead of them to Canada. When
the tempest broke they forsook the old country to try life undewtlie
shadow of the maple. Many of these men are highly trained arti
sans who learned their craft under the hardest conditions of labour
of competition and of marketing. Others of them are doctors and
scientific men at whose feet American students were proud to sit.
Still others are farmers who carried on under the most difficult con
ditions of soil and climate. These men are not strangers either to
labour or to skill. All of these folk now feel the sharp spur of ne
cessity. All they ask of this Dominion is a chance to invest their
skill, their labour and their capital. Canada was advantaged to
a degree beyond all reckoning by blood from France, from England,
Ireland and Scotland in tho early days of the last century. Let us
admit and be grateful that the new blood now offering itself for
infusion into Canadian life is the peer of the best tho world has ever
known. Let us welcome the .proffered new life of so rich and high
an order. What have Mackenzie King and Dr, Manion to say
about it?
Henry Hyndman Was
Big Figure in Early
Huron
Remarkable Home Set Up by Man
More Familiar With Letters
Than Farming
LIFE ENDED WITH TRAGEDY;
FLAMES RAZED LANDMARK
Large Landowner Was Friend of
Canada Company’s Famous
Dr. Dunlop
By W. H. Johnston in the London
Free Press
The early history of the Huron
Tract is so bound up with the Can
ada Company, John Galt, the organ
izer and Doctor Dunlop, his co-ad-
juter, that we can scarcely introduce
an event of those early times with
out connecting it with at least one
of the three.
Though the company was charter
ed in 1825, before 1833 more than
50,000 adventurous spirits poured
into Western Upper Canada and the
majority of these came to the Huron
Tract.
Of course, there were many fail
ures, but there were many brilliant
successes, especially among those
who were financially short of money,
but who were determined to see it
through and make a home for them
selves. Many who were better off
came from the cities of the home
land and before fortune smiled on
them, their money had disappeared
but they had learned to love this new
country.
Among the select class may be
mentioned Henry Hyndman, of Lin
coln’s Inn Fields of Old London, who
in 1833 read literature issued by the
company and who promptly bought
800 acres as an estate and soon af
terwards set sail for Canada with his
wife and six ehilrden. With him also
came his widowed mother.
Coming by water, they landed in
Goderich, July 20, 1834 and took up
their abode in two of Baron Tuyle’s
bark-covered cabins. These were so
low that the earthern floor had to
be dug out so that a man could stand
upright in them. Work was started
on the farm at once, lot 4, east, Lake
Road concession of Colborne Twp.,
and a large log house was erected,
but the material was green and had
shrunk so much before the second
winter that the children enjoyed
sliding in the spacious hall in spite
of the large fire places at each end.
“The house was fitted throughout
with old country furniture, big four-
poster bedsteads and roomy arm
chairs, ^family portraits and silver,
warm curtaining and much good lin
en and most valuable of all, a lib
rary of over 2,000 books.
Of Mr. Hyndman, it was said by
one who knew him well. “Although
he was born with a pen in one hand
and a dictionary in the other, he
could take a tremendous lift at the
end of a handspike.”
With characteristic energy and
having a fair amount of money, he.
and his men. applied themselves to
the huge task of clearing off the
heavy timber on his farm.
Probably his education fitted him
better for another walk of life. His
fellows seem to think so. too, as he
was appointed returning officer for
the parliamentary elections and later
was made the first sheriff of the
Huron district. As sheriff and friend,
he often accompanied Dr. Dunlop to
Toronto and Kingston.
In 1843, the sheriff was in Toron
to and came home on the stage coach
In an accident, all the passengers
were thrown out and Mr. Hyndman’s
head struck a stone. An abscess
formed and a year later he died.
One record said of him: “A tall man
straight as a tree the best and truest
man that ever set foot irv Huron,”
For a few years, the family used
to move to Goderich in the winter
for the sake of the children’s school
ing, but one early January morning
in 1846 when all were at home in
Lunderston, fire broke out and the
comfortable home large and commo
dious, with all its rich furnishings,
portraits and treasured library was
a heap of ashes. Awakened by Mrs.
Morgan, Mrs. Hyndman’s sister-in-
law, they escaped half-clothed in the
barn while the boys tried to quench
the fire. A neighbor, David Lawson
took all of them to his home.
The loss was irreparable and in
1 849 the two ladies with all the fam
ily save one son and one daughter
returned to Ayrshire, Scotland,
where the eldest, Henry, had inher
ited an estate, named Springside.
Tested Recipes
Tomato Juice
Tomato juice has varied uses. A
glass of chilled tomato juice, with or
without seasonings to taste is a re
freshing and also a nourishing first
coure for any meal of the day.
In addition, this healthful juice,
full of flavour and attractive in col
our, can be put to many other ex
cellent uses. A few suggestions for
including tomato juice in the sum
mer menu are:
Tomato Mjik
i cup tomato juice
1 cup milk
Mix tomato juice and milk thorough
ly together. Serve well chilled.
J'e1Iied Tomato Consomme
2 cups tomato juice
1 su<> consomme (canned)
% cup water
tablespoons gelatine
U cup cold water
1 tabelspoon lemon juice
or
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
and 1 teaspoon onion juice
Satl and Pepper to taste.
Heat tomato juice, consomme and
water to boiling point. Dissolve gela
tine soaked in the cold water in hot
liquid. Add seasonings. Chill. Serve
in buillion cups.
Jellied Tomato Cheese Salad
1 tablespoon gelatine
3 tablespoons water
1 cup tomato juice
1£ cups cream or cottage cheese
B cup salad dressing
Juice of I lemon
1 tablespoon sugar
1 cup grated carrot
1 small green pepper, chopped
1 tablespoon minced onion
1 small cucumber seeded and diced
Salt to taste.
Soak gelatine in cold water. Dissove
over hot water. Mix together all in
gredients. Stir in dissolved gela
tine. Pour into moulds rinsed with
cold water. Chill. Umnould on cups
of crisp lettuce.
Tomato Tea Biscuits
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
a teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons butter
I to two-thirds cup tomato juice
Sift flour, baking power and salt.
Cut in butter. Add tomato juice to
make a soft dough. Turn out on
lightly foured board. Pat or roll to
about % inch thickness. Cut with
cookie cutter. Bake at 450 degrees F.
for 10-12 minutes. Serve with fruit
or vegetable salad.
Note: a cup grated cheese may be
added to mixture, reducing butter to
2 tablespoons.
The height at which birds fly
sometime indicates weather changes
as it is ail indication of the air’s den
sity. With a low pressure it is
harder for them to fly in a higher
or more rarefied layer of air.
Rings around the moon or sun are
called haloes. They are due to re
fraction of light on upper bodies of
moisture. By indicating the pres
ence of moisture they tell us that this
same moisture is apt to be precipi
tated as rain or snow.
The second Sunday in December
is designated as 'Bible Sunday?
There is true majesty in simplicity
Quidnunc
Honey is flavored according to the
kind of flowers and blossoms the
bees visit. Thus, in season, clover
blossoms are in such profusion that
the cloved flavor dominates the hon
ey in some hives. This is true of
many other varieties of bloom. There
are, perhaps, as many as one hun
dred different flavors in honey mar
keted in America.
Each Aircraft Carrier has a capa
city for about eighty planes.
The last lee Age which began back
about thirty thousand years is slow
ly disappearing as the glaciers keep
on melting—but—they still have a
lot of melting to do. In Antarctic,
enough ice remains to encase the en
tire world with a layer 120 feet
thick.
A million children in one group
would make a sizeable crowd but as
a statistic, they are not so prominent
For example, recent figures show
that there are 11,564,059 attending
City (urban) schools, while there
are 10,894,121 children attending
country or rural schools.
There are 3,74 counties in the 48
states of the U. S. A. Texas is the
largest state with 254 counties. Dela
ware, while not the smallest state
has just three counties. Two states,
North Carolina and Virginia have
exactly 100 each, For the supersti
tious, Oklahoma is th most lucky
state with 77 counties. If you live
in the U. S, A, can you nante the
number of counties in your state?
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SCHOLARSHIP FOR
LONDON SINGER
Miss Helen Cole, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. H. Cole, Emery street,
London, has received a scholarship
from Sir Ernest MacMillan to study
> opera under the direction of Di*.
Heinrich Jalowetz, famous conductoi’
of the opera in Vienna, Prague and
New York, it was dearned recently.
This scholarship entitles Miss Cole
to lectures and studies in sight-sing
ing and rudiments in music from
George Lambert, and expression and.
deportment from Marion Copp, in
Toronto.
Miss Cole is well-known in London
music circles and has been honored
at various festivals in the U. S. A.
and Canada,
The finest summer excursion of
them all is nearly here—an excur
sion into a veritable land of Make-
Believe! Railways, steamship and
bus lines are offering special rates
so that you may take a trip to this
Wonderland—the Canadian National
Exhibition.
Ling: “If you looked at a postage
stamp, how could you tell we were
never going to lose a war?”
Long: “Because, the King is al
ways on the side that’s never licked.”
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