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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-09-26, Page 6THE EMPIRE CANADA THE WORLD AT LARGE A Salvage Triumph CANADA PLACE OF THE SHINE An employer can judge an appli cant for a job by noting where the shine is — on the shoes or the seat of the pants. — Woodstock Sentinel- Review. FIRST MOTOR CARS The first automobile owner in Can ada was a resident of Hamilton, a native of Malahide. Sir William Mu- lock was the first pioneer of gasoline machines built in Canada. He order ed six motor tricycles and quadra cycles for the use of the Post Office Department and “soon the streets of Toronto were frantic with the chuck ing of these red machines.” — St. Thomas Times-Journal. ’TIS A WORTHY PLACE The rise of Stratford in the realm of baseball is one of the phenomena of the age. And to choose a shin ing mark like St. Thomas showed an audacity that had much to do with our neighbor’s success. Next thing we will be hearing that the Classic City has developed a football team. —St. Thomas Times-Journal. to see the attractive qualities that lie in everyong, often under a cov ering of very unattractive scurf. Most people, however, are suspicious and take longer to get acquainted. They are like the two London finan cial men in one of the Bab Ballads. Every reader of Gilbert will recall how these two men, the bitterest of ene mies, wrent on an excursion together and were the their ship was island. Gilbert formation thus: “They soon became like brothers in communky of wrongs. They wrote each other little odes and sang each other songs. They told each dL pairaging their On several _ ______ saved each other’s lives. ■— Vancouver Province. isole survivors when wrecked on a desert describes the trans- other anecdotes wives. occasions, too, they With the 100 foot high locks used in floati ng her, clustered cn her bottom like a group of factory smokestacks. The Konig Albert, German battleship scuttled by her crew in Scapa Flow in 1919, is pictured as she is towed to port after b eing raised from the bottom by Scottish salvagers. WEDDING PRESENTS LAMB IS EARNED BY CONDUCT (London Times.) IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS CURIOSITY SATISFIED Princess Ottaboni reported to police at Montreal her purse had been stolen, and it contained 5320. Of course, that’t too bad, but at the same time it satisfies a certain curiosity we have always possessed to know how much a princess carried in her purse. — Stratford Beacon-Herald. the THAT PRETTY TEACHER The superintendent of schools in Rockford, Ill., announces that he will engage nothing but good-looking teachers in future. We used to think there was a pretty teacher on the tenth concession, but there was al ways a mean look in her eye and a certain frigidity in her voice when she said something about staying in after four. — Stratford Beacon- Herald. ODD BOOK MARKERS A librarian in Manchester makes known some of the things which he finds used as book markers in the vol umes which are returned. They in clude needles, safety pins, pieces of wire, love-letters, pieces of biscuit and slabs of bacon. What, we wonder, was wrong with the pieces of bacon that they were put to such use? And what if some swain left a love-letter from a girl and the book was next taken out by a rival? Zowie! — St. Thomas Times- Journal. MONTREAL’S HORSES One of the beautiful sights in the City of Montreal is the horse-drawn vehicle — provided always that it is conducted by a driver who has a re- ispect for his horse. The horse goes proudly forward with his ears set to each the noises that come from in front, because he has no fear of the man with the reins. One of the ugly sights in the city is the horse with his ears trained back for fear of what may be coming from the man with the reins. We occupy a city that is one of the las: strongholds of the horse. We have some charming, happy hors es, and if we want to keep them, we had better see that we keep them with their ears expectant for what is in front and fearless of what is hind. — Montreal Star. be- So- Sanitation Engineers’ con- in time every will have its idea is in the and at least is the plumber, engineers. — 9 IN THE SUBLIME A speaker at the American ciety of vention asserted that bedroom everywhere own bathroom. The nature of the sublime calculated to encourage or rather the sanitary Montreal Gazette. EASIER You see, it’s easier the home to buy a car tgage the car to buy a home. — Bran don un. to mortgage than to mor- GOOD IN WORST OF MEN A group of men, Will Rogers among them, sat through a long evening in the lobby of a hotel in the Cuban capital, and in the course of the con versation several famous political figures in Europe and America were mentioned with disparagement by one member or another of the group. In variably it turned out that Rogers knew the man mentioned and had found something attractive about him. Finally he admitted with a grin: “I just can’t seem to dislike anybody I ever met. If I want to hate him, I’ve got to stay away from him.” Charles Lamb had the same char- ssteristic. “Don’t you hate that man?” someone ?~ksd him on one occasion. But Elia chcok his head. “How can 1 ha'e him?” he asked isiimply. “I know him.” There are some men, like Rogers and Lamb, who have the actuteness THE EMPIRE THE EMPIRE’S OPEN SPACES The point raised frequently in the tour of the Empire delegates is that of the undeveloped Imperial estates. Canada’s population is in the neigh bourhood of 10,000,000; Australia over six and a quarter million; South Af rica, 7,000,000 (1,700,000 whites); and’ New Zealand about one millions (including One or two of and a half 66,0000 Maons). I the Dominions have their own special problems — that of Australia with its great empty spaces, and that of South Africa with its millions of natives. Probably the case of Australia is the most serious, for at no great distance from the shores of the Commonwealth is mili tary Japan, with a population call ing for ouilets. The pride of Australia is its white population. It is not be- ■ ing reinforced. Indeed, there has been ' a standstill in the British Common wealth which has intensified the un employment problem in the Old Coun try. An Australian speaker in Glas gow put his fir.ger on. the weak SfiOt in his country, themselves had and it would be people to come number. Instead iug to the overseas Dominions, many have returned home. Two things are certainly needed to bring about a real revival in Great Britain — a great development of the British Common wealth and real stimulus to world trade. -— Edinburgh Evening News. He said that they 30,000 unemployed unfair to ask British out and swell that of British people go- SLANG AND “AMERICANISMS” Slang is many things; satisfaction of need, assertion of vigour, defiance of authority, friendly intimacy — most moods and isituations and ex periences produce some. English must not only borrow—when in its long history did it refuse to borrow?—but it is becoming a basic duty for the Briton to get on close terms with the racy speech of America’s plains and cities, or else how will he understand O. Henry and others, or follow Hol lywood’s flicks? “The English langu age,” writes Mr. A. Lloyd James in a book we referred to some days ago, “is a very much more widespread language than the world has yet seen in its history, and the first thing the English-speakng peoples have to learn is that there are many good ways of speaking it.” — Calcutta Statesman. TRICK CYCLISTS — A TRAFFIC PROBLEM The traffic problem of Hong' Kong has always been the subject of much discussion. We refer now to the sec tion of the community more common ly known as “trick cyclists,” and it may be said without exaggeration that these cyclists are a constant source of danger to the community in general. It may not be known that these cyclists are, most of them, merely beginners and the danger of learning how to ride a bicycle along roads that are being constantly used by motor traffic may readily be ap preciated by even those with the dullest imagination. Along crowded places like the Wanchai district, this menace is even more pronounced. The cyclists all have the knack of indulg ing in their acrobatics in the even ings when most of the people are out of doors, and especially in the hot weather, when joy-riders are more freely indulged in, the trick cyclists make themselves public nuisances of the highest order. — Hong Kong Daily Press. THE QUALITY OF MERCY Time and time again some private ’ person steps forward to mitigate the mechanical injustices of a perhaps too complicated system of justice. Consider the action of Lady Wei- gall, who wired £10 to secure the re lease from prison of a Birmingham labourer who had been [committed I because his eldest son had broken bail. A wife and ’eight children de pended on this man; but officiaidom takefe no account of such matters. Its iron heel stamps blindly. But tor OTTAWA,—Prime Minister Ben nett last Friday evening lit the fuse to fire the first big gun in the Feeder- al Conservative election campaign. Speaking to a radio audience over a nation-wide hook-up, Mr. Bennet covered a lot of ground in thirty min utes, taking a fraction of that time to defend his administration’s en deavour to negotiate a satisfactory trade agreement with the United States, and also to drop a hint that a very important announcement con cerning chat matter would be shortly forthcoming. It could the Premier’s address of the importance of had not just dawned servative party. States Congress had vested the presi dent with power t0 enter into trade treaties, the Bennett administration had been dickering with the Republic to the south; Mr. Bennett also made an nouncement last week concerning 50 per cent, ad valorem surtax posed by Japan upon certain Canad ian goods entering that country. Canada is not going to bow to the will of Jana by any means, and if the surtax is not removed, then Canada will do the one logical thing—secede from the terms of the Anglo-Japan ese commercial treaty. If that course is finally taken then the Dominion would be free to take such other steps as the national interest require. The Anglo-Japanese mercial treaty has regulated between Canada and Japan May, 1913. The Dominion regards the Japanese surtax as discriminatory action against Canadian goods. How ever, Canada is earnestly hopeful that the government of Japan may yet be persuaded of the justness of the position taken by the Canadian government and will take steps to remove the surtax and make it pos sible to attain a friendly settlement of the present controversy. In its be taken from that realiation such a treaty upon the Con- Since the United an- the im- may com- trade since talks with Japan, the Canadian gov ernment reminded that country of the very substantial concessions ac corded to imports from Japan by re ducing the exchange compensation duty which made full allowances for the extent to which the competitive advantage arising from the deprecia tion of Japanese exchange had been offset by the relative increase in the price level in Japan. With election day not so very far away, voters naturally are thinking of the march to the poll:. It may be to some advantage :o them to know that a number of changes have taken place in the election law. Heretofore, in rural polls, a person who was known to be eligible as a voter but whose name was not on the list, could vote by making an affidavit. This, no longer is possible. If he is not on the lists he cannot vote on October 14. Another innovation con sists in provision for absentee voters. Fishermen, lumbermen, sailors and miners who are on the list for a certain constituency but away from it on election day can go to a polling booth where they are, fill out a bal lot and have it sent to their own home to be counted. This is possible only within a province. An Ontario man, absent in Quebec for instance, could not have his ballot sent home. Another new provision is that every voter—urban or rural—is to be noti fied by the returning officer as to the precise location of the poll at which he is to vote. Heretofore the parties have done it. Ontario tobacco growers, through a local scheme approved by the Do minion Marketing Board, may expect to see stabilization of prices in the very near future. The scheme applies to Burley tobacco, and is another of the many that have helped producers of other commodities in the past. By negotiations between producers and buyers, the tobacco industry will no doubt benefit to a great extent. I’D LIKE TO BE A COUNTRY DOCTOR Famous Writer Chooses Pro fession That Would Appeal Most To Him If The Clock Could Be Put Back Fifty Years. I have seen a good many men in my time, writes H. de Vere Stacpoole in the London Morning Post, includ ing emperors and kings (at a dis tance), world-famous artists, poets, philosophers and politicians, and looking back on the lot, trying to determine which of them was most really successful in the only art worth considering as an absolute as set to its practitioner—the are of being happy—I find myself at fault. I turn them over till I come to the doctors, and the doctors till I come on a funny old figure in a top hat for whom I have been, perhaps, subconsciously hunting. It is Docetor John Townsend of Penfield in Zum- merset. He’s the man. Honestly, I almost believe that, if ( the clock were put back fifty years, the curtain rung down and the Great Dramatist should say to me, “I am re-casting this play, what will you be? Here’s the lot—emperors, poets, politicians and dustmen, take choice;” want to be This,1 “And maybe you are right; The Old Fashioned Kind Townsend—the name is fictitious— was the typical old-fashioned country doctor. He had no saloon car; cars were coming in just as he was going- out; anyhow he would not have used a saloon—he liked weather. Two horses and an old gig served him for his work, and the radius of his prac tice, compared with the radius of the country practices of today, was very limited. squire himself when brought back from the hunting field on a hurdle or when port wine had laid him out with the gout. All these were the doctor’s family —he was a bachelor—and with the roses, the “Morning Post,” “Punch,” his pipe, a book and an occasional rubber of whist at the rectory, they pretty well made up his life. A life, undisturbed by sound of telephone bell or hoot of motor horn. Wore A Top Hat He nearly always wore a top hat— think of that, ye medical spectres in motor gogles on motorcycles, who think nothing cf a fifty mile journey before lunch—and he wore it on his rounds, or sometimes even in his surgery as he stood with it tilted back, his pipe in his mouth, unpack ing bottles from a crate or marking items in a drug list. It was the sym bol of his relationship with his wide- snread family and so regarded by them. Without it I think he would have lest half his power to heal, despite the power of his drugs—and such drugs! Real old Victoria knights in armor led by Brigadier - General Prussic Acid, ably followed, under the banner of the old Pharmacopoeia, by those doughty warriors, Strych nine, Tartar Emetic, Laudanum, Aconite, Hyoscyamus, Salicylate of Soda, Calomel and Jalap. No finick ing coaltar products, no pilules. Pills the size of pistol bullets and boluses the size of bombs—nearly. With this horse, foot and artillery he fought the Great War—I mean the Great Influenza Epidemic of the year—when was it? — and many a lesser war with voctories forgotten and unrecorded on his tombstone, which stands a bit crooked and a bit weathered in the pleasant little churchyard of Penfield. Battles with the Guardians over extra relief for paupers, battles with the Relieving Officer over the same sort of thing; battles with Stupidity as when one of his sheep-faced flock would swal low a liniment instead of a mixture, or a whole box of pills on the prin ciple that thirty would do thirty tim es as much good as one; all these minor engagements if they did not add a zest to life, at any rate served as vents for a none too perfect temper that, however, Keen business men have been known to complain that marriage has tended to distract their minds from business and even to divide their attention. This may not matter so much when the marriage is hap py, but unhappy marriages also take up the attention, even when little is actually thrown. So there may well be congratula tions for the Moslem couple whose married life has just come to an end. It was not happy, but neither was it long, being, in fact, under rather than over the hour. The quarrel began as soon as the knot was tied, because it was the bride’s idea to go shopping straight away, and the bridegroom had apparently said things before marriage, imply ing that his first and gayest actions in the married state would be to buy his bride all manner of delight ful and valuable presents. He had not really meant this, and high words followed, ending, ft a dress maker’s, in a return to the registrar and a request for a swift cancella tion of the marriage. It may be the wisdom of the West that attaches such importance to a bride’s trousseau, so that not till well after the honeymoon will the dressmaker’s shop be able to loom large. It is explained that relatives and friends desire to give the mar riage time to take root, and it is undoubtedly true that people who give wedding presents like mar riages to last a reasonable time, at any rate until the presents are broken or pawned. Yet it cannot be pretended that there would be gratitude for the wise and helpful giver who an nounced that his presents would mature year by year, and that he for his part was not in favor of prizes in advance. The presents trade at any rate will be quick to deny the parsimonious logic which says presents must be given either now or in the future, and will de mand that “and” be read instead of “either . . . or.” Unless exception be made for Dunmow flitches and a few similar bequests involving public competi tion, the powerful lever of the pres ent is not used until 25 years have passed. Cotton and wood weddings, which come much earlier, have some how never caught on, and Lancashire and the timbered Empire should turn their attention to the opening that exists for a skilful advertising campaign. Serve Planked Chops Or A Crown Roast Followed By A Creamy Peach Mousse. black in- Satin Is In I ’> your if I were to say, “I just he would reply, the humanity of a gracious lady it might have stamped this family into destitution. We plead guilty to senti ment in the matter. We hold the tender heart is not the least asset of civilised society. — London Sunday Referee. 1 43 His house, with its rose garden, is, I imagine, no longer used by a doc tor. That is one of the melancholy changes the motorcar has brought about; for the country practitioner now generally lives in a town and swoops on his prey, regardless of dis tance, at the call of the telephone and with the speed of a hawk. Yet what a pleasant Jiouse it was, espe cially when seen in summer with the roses in bloom and the apples ripen ing in the little orchard. The ro§6s ere amongst his pa tients, for he was a keen gardener, and he visited them eve?y morning in summer and autumn before start ing off to visit opher patients, not roses—no, not roses by any means— humans, and very human at that; mostly cottagers and small farmers, ■with a sprinkling -of tradesmen; the parson and his family; the squire’s servants and retainers, and the temper turn, uuwewi, ------ gratitude—in the form of unpaid bills—left undisturbed. You, see, he was a shepherd, not a sheepshearer, and if not blind to values was sometimes blind to value, as when, for instance, a scraggy old goose would be brought to him at Christmas time and accepted, instead of the settlement of an unpaid bill. I Income tax a shilling in the pound, tobacco fourpence an ounce; hedged and bird-haunted highways and by ways instead of tar-macadamised shambles, no petrol pumps, more a far away and unfearful picture — these and many other attractions would induce one to take a long holi day in the far away land of old Dr. Townsend. “But,” you will say, to be him, to lead his life; surely you don’t mean—” Well, maybe I don’t, maybe I do. Anyhow, the thing would be next to impossible for you and me, for it would imply the art of doing pretty much the same thing day after day without tiring of the job, of leading a full and busy life without fussing over it, of doing good without desire or hope of reward. A complex art, even rarer today than the almost lost art of thatching. Which reminds me that there was another doctor practising in the Pen field district, John Fry, the thatcher. He omy attended roofs. Seventy years of age yyhenl tneXv him, he: had brought into the ^yorld all the lovely old thatched roofs of Penfield and was attending them in their last illnesses. The place is slated now, I hear, with council houses coming into being—ruined more effectively than Pompeii. . Black and white — lot of it is what Paris does for every hour jf the day, too! This simple smart dress was jrginally in black and white. It was of satin with a velveteen bow posed at the shoulder. Wool-like silk, woolen novel ties, satin-back silk, etc., would also be good to carry out this simple to sew model. Style No. 3349 is designed for siz’ds 16, 18 years, 36, 38 and 40- inches bust. Size 16 requires 3% yards of 35-inch material with % yard of 35-inch contrasting and % yard of 35-inch lining for sleeve. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of pattern wanted. Enclose 15c in stamps or coin (coin preferred); wrap it carefully, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto. Most cooks like preparing meals for men because there’s some sub stance to the things they like. And because, too, they don’t bother about diets and fads. A favorite dinner with men cen tres around thick mutton chops, planked. For these, you need loin chops off yearling lambs. Get the butcher to take out the bone in one piece and put strips of bacon or the lamb’ kidneys in the centre of the meat and roll it up. Fasten it securely with small skew ers or bind with a cord, then cut into slices about one and one-half inches thick and wrap each slice with a strip of bacon or larding pork. Allow one chop for each person to be served. TO PLANK CHOPS To plank, first boil the chops on one side only on a hot, well-oiled broiler- In the meantime heat the plank very hot and rub it with but ter or other fat. Place chops, cook ed side down, on the plank and ar range stuffed tomatoes or stuffed peppers or both around the chops and put the whole thing into a very hot oven to finish cooking. Serve on the plank, seasoning the chops well and garnishing with sprigs of parsley and sprays of watercress. Potatoes au gratin are good to serve with this meat dish. If you use both tomatoes and peppers, stuff the peppers with succotash and the tomatoes with a mixture of celery and almonds. Braised saddle of lamb is a good dish, too. Serve it with fresh vege tables and mint sauce. A crown roast of lamb is decor ative if properly done. Usually the entire cut known as the rack is used for it and the roast is suitable for a company affair. With its filling it will serve eight or ten persons gen erously and well. The ribs are sep arated at the back bone and then trimmed and chops. Shape in a circle, having the ribs outside, and tie firmly. Trim the ends of the bones evenly, care being taken that they are not too long. Wrap each bone with a thin strip of salt pork to prevent the bone from burning. FILL WITH CHOPPED MEAT Fill the centre with finely chopped lamb—trimmings from the roast— and finely chopped veal mixed with a little salt pork for flavor. Add a well beaten egg and mix thorough ly. Round the filling up, letting it come within two inches of the tops of the rib bones. Roast two and one-half to three hours in a moder rate oven. Remove salt pork and cover bones with chop frills before sending to the table. PEACH MOUSSE One cup whipping cream, 1 tea spoon gelatin (granulated), 2 table spoons cold water, 4 tablespoons hot water, % cup sugar, 1^ cups peach pulp, few grains salt. Soak gelatin in cold water and dissolve in hot water. Add sugar, salt and gelatin to peach pulp and mix thoroughly. Let stand until cool and fold into cream which has been whipped until firm. Turn into mold or freezing tray and freeze. If frozen in a freezer, pack in six parts ice to one part ice cream salt and freeze without stirring. The Open Window I love the flowery curtains all flut tering in the breeze And dappled by the sunshine coming through the swinging trees; - Ilove the open window with a glimpse of sunny sky, A velvet lawn, a blaze of flowers, a dancing butterfly; Oh! I love the open window, with lupin pink and blue; I nod a friendly greeting when the sun is shining through! I love the open window with the roces all ablow And the ivy and the jasmine a-nod- ding to and fro; I live to watch a spider or to trace a gleaming thread, And’ find him in a web of pearls be hind a garden bed; Oh! I love the opefi window when the lilacs wet with dew, When the morning’s full of glory and the sun is shining through! I love the open window, and when I’m ilder still, And the room is full of shadow's, dark and damp and chill; When I’m tired and worn with try ing, and my heart is full of pain, When all my castles wonderful have tumbled down Again, I will never lose my courage, for there’s one thing I can do,— I wifi open w'ide my window and let the sunshine through! —Emily Sand eman