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aboulders and rocks. It grows to
height of ten feet.
WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, July 24th, 1941
The checked motif is of prime im-
Tportance this year. Checks are smart
ly handled, worked into designs and
^patterns rather than used as allover
materials. Here’s an example in this
new silk print for afternoon wear. The
white silk ground is printed in bows
•done in blue and white' checks. The
xuffled shawl collar frames the neck
In soft flattering folds, The navy pat
ient belt is wide in front and has a but
ton closing.
Lovely everlasting pen grows
everywhere
As illustrated in the Garden-Graph,
the blossoms are larger and more
beautiful than the sweet pea, but they
are not fragrant. They are, however,
desirable for cutting purposes, being
very showy. The vines -bloom from
June to frost. The seed pods should
be removed as they form to increase
the quality of the flowers.
The variety Albus has white flow
ers, Rosea, flowers of a clear pink col
or, while Splindens are a dark red and
purple color.
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J. Boyle
“GASLESS SUNDAYS”
I Garden-'
Graphz z f
Lathyrus latifolius, the perennial or
everlasting pea, is a beautiful vine
Which will grow in sun or shade and
Uncle Ned is more or less assured
now that the war is changing for the
better. He approves of recent plans
to help win the war, and when you
consider that he fought the Boer War
out and the Great War as well . . .
with words ... it must be a relief for
the powers that be, that Uncle Ned
has finally placed the seal of approval
on their actions. ' ■' • < i i . i ,
The point which Uncle Ned ap-
proves, is that of “gasless Sundays”.
He says that will make people sit up
and realize that there is a war on, In
his way of thinking, there’s nothing
as foolish as getting the car out on a
Sunday morning, piling the family in
to it and then breezing off around the
country wasting gasoline . . with no
where to go and nothing to do.
Somehow or other I can't help
thinking that Uncle Ned approves.of
'gasless Sundays for purely selfish rea
sons* He is looking forward and hop
ing for a return of the Sundays when
he could sit on the front verandah of
his home in the village and thoroughly
enjoy himself.
It was always pleasant visiting
Uncle Ned on a Sunday, Seated in
one of those old fashioned rocking
chairs and with his feet tucked in am
ong the foliage of the Dutchman’s
Pipe that clambered up over the ver
andah railing, in order that nobody
could see him in his stockings, he
would puff *...ay stolidly on his pipe.
The church down the street had serv
ices in the morning and he was at his
best as they walked by on their way
to worship. “Good morning James .
. . and a fine day this’if” ... or else
. . . . “’Tis fine you’re looking Mrs,
Mullaley . . . and you caring for such
strapping big twins”. Ned knew every
one that went to church and he had a
word of greeting for them all. While
church was on he would don his glass
es and peer near-sightedly through the
pages of news. Just as soon as the
church doors opened, the glasses
would come off and the newspaper
would be thrown aside and he would
wat'ch for the people going back again.
Sitting beside him, one could learn a
great deal. He knew where Big Jim
Casey -bought his sorrel mare ....
and where Jack Hawkins traded his
black driver .... and how Joe Mc
Ginnis had it put over him when he
traded horses with a band of gypsies
. .and so much more news and gos
sip of the district.
The church across the street had its
services during the afternoon. Uncle
Ned derived the same enjoyment from
watching those folks going to church.
To tell the truth, it was a pleasure to
see the fine horses and carriages pull
up . . . and the women folks get out
. . . and the men drive the rigs on to
the stable where the horses would be
put away. As a boy I always enjoyed
slipping away down to the big church
shed where the men used to talk about
horses and crops, and admire each
other’s buggies and whips. Finally the
church bell would be sounded and they
would all go into church. Uncle Ned
would drowse off to sleep in the chair.
A hummingbird would dart in and
around the blue delphiniums and holly
hocks that banked one side of the ver
andah . . . big blue flies would drone
by aimlessly . . and everything would
he still with the hush of a Sunday af
ternoon. The occasional horse and
buggy would click-clack by and the
old man’s headzwould stop nodding on
his chest and he would come awake
long enough to see who it was and
the chair woul'd rock violently for sev
eral minutes and then slow down to
bare movement.
In the evening there was always a
murmur of voices up and down the
street. Now and again a match would
flare up and a high pitched voice
would sound out a laugh down the
DO YOU
TAKE SALTS?
Here’s a pinch that is as
good as a pound
Kruschen Suits consist of several
important mineral salts blended
carefully in exactly the right propor->
tions. These salts are highly refined
and their quality is the highest
obtainable anywhere in the world.
Maybe we sacrifice something by
giving you the pure mineral salts
without adding any flavouring in
gredients, but we believe you prefer
to have your medicine concentrated
in small, compact and easily absorb
ed doses. That’s why you only need
take enough Kruschen to cover a
dime. It’s the economical way of
taking salts, too,
Another thing to remember about
Kruschen—it doesn’t achieve its
result by irritating or inflaming the
colon. It attracts to the colon the
moisture which is absolutely essen
tial if you wish to avoid constipation
and achieve easy evacuation. You
can get Kruschen from all druggists,
75c, and 25c.
what if you forget yours, sir?” asked
one boy. The master agreed to take
his medicine if he failed to carry out
his own order. Next day the master
.forgot his own gas-mask-and the boy
stood on a chair to wield the strap,
The ghosts of many schoolboys, past
and present, will cheer loudly.
* * * $
A- man in the United States, well-
known for his help to people in
trouble, for which he derives a yearly
stipend of over $187,500 through
^broadcasting, has -been unable to set
tle his own matrimonial difficulties!
He has now applied to a court to end
his own matrimonial troubles with
three wives of his own, former and
present. A prophet is without honour
. . .!
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Dr. R. B. Fulton, a research enom
ologist, claims to have discovered a fly
that spins a web, catches spiders; car
ries blue “tail-lights” fore-and-aft, anH
eats mushrooms.
BOMBS WRECK
SCOTTISH HOMES
K WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
8. Before
9. Fig pen
11. Overhead
railroad
(abbr.)
14. Feat of
skill
18. Often
(poet.)
20. Tie
21. Aside
22. Huge
23. Fish-eating
mammal
24. Rip
26. Thing of
value
. owned
27. Provide,
as food
28. Herb
29. Head
coverings
31. Insects
33. A little pie
35. Kind of
roll
37. Fertile
desertspot
38. Misrepre
sent
39. Emblazon
40. Chopped
42. Boast
43. Part of a
play
street. The young men and the girls
would go by . . sauntering in the way
that tells the ageless story ^of love.
Those things have been ^changed.
Uncle Ned finds that motor cars zip
by and he can't find the same enthus
iasm as he did when horses were in
style. Dust.rolls up on the back street
. . . people find more pleasure in golf
than they do in church . , . and they
think he’s a meddling old fool if he
calls out at them. The front verandahs
on the street are empty ... in the
morning filled with .the sound of roar
ing motor cars as people pile into their
autos to make off for the day . . per
haps just to drive some place or go
and visit relatives that, ten chances to
one,
around.
that all
“gasless
again.
Told by Chief Petty Officer John Mc
Lean, a Nephew of Mrs. Henry
Ross, of Town
are away themselves roaming
Uncle Ned is quite certain
this, will be changed when
Sundays” come into effect
THIS STRANGE WORLD
A car crashed into a lorry travell
ing along an English road laden with
150,000' eggs. The car was wrecked.
Not one egg was broken.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Robert Rollion, of Buffalo, N.Y., an
nounced that his thirteenth child, just
born, will be named “Toomuch.” His
previous child, born last year, was
named “Enough.”
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A Nottinghamshire schoolmaster
told his class that anyone who forgot
his gas-mask would get the strap. “But
Clydesdale was the first district in
Scotland to suffer the full weight of a
large-scale attack by the Luftwaffe.
Chief Petty Officer John’ McLean, of
Hobart, tells how a party went ashore
fnogi a destroyer during the “blitz” on
the night of March 13 to help rescue
people from the wreckage of build
ings; and how, next morning, the
Scottish workers “crawled out of the
ruins of their homes and clocked in at
the usual, time.”
, Although the German radio said the
shipyards were the targets, the .bombs,
landmines, and incendiaries^ with few
exceptions, fell on workmen’s tene
ment houses near the shipyards.
The incendiaries came down over a
large area. The red glow of burning
tenements could be seen from the des
troyer. A landmine attached to a par
achute drifted out of the smqke clouds .
astern and was silhouetted against the
glow of the fires before it disappeared
in the direction of the river. Two
stokers who had sand blown' into their
eyes when attempting to extinguish in
cendiary bombs were the only casual
ties on the destroyer.
At 4 a.m. a party from the ship an
swered a call for assistance^ A block
of three-storied tenement houses had
been bombed and several families, were
believed buried in the ruins. Chief
Petty Officer McLean and the other
men walked through the shipyards,
passing machine shops, stacks of sjteel
plates, and the towering skeletons of
ships on the stoffics—all ■unharmed.
Outside the dockyard, the men crunch
ed glass underfoot- Few windows were
intact, pieces of furniture were dangl
ing from windows, the vacuum caused
by the blast of high explosives had
sucked the Stocks from shop windows.
A landmine had exploded about 30 ft.
behind a block of tenement houses, and
several pf the houses had become large
heaps of strewn wreckage. Fires were
burning at both ends of the wrecked
tenements, Somewhere beneath the
pile pf debris about SO men, women
and children were buried.
The men from the destroyer assisted
in the rescue work, A woman was bur-
about eight feet from the surface of
the wreckage. She had been sitting on
a chair with a child^on her knees when
the mine exploded. Her body was bur
ied to the armpits with brick and rub
ble, and It piece of timber close to her
face prevented her from moving her
head, The child and a man nearby
were dead.
“Only one man could work in the
small hole,” says Chief Petty Officer
McLean, "and he had to scrape and
dig with his hands as ther.e was no
room to use tools. A fire 'about' eight
feet away threatened to drive us out
of the hole. The smoke became al
most unbearable, opr torches were
running low, and it looked as if we
might have to abandon the woman
The water pressure was*too hi£h and
difficult to control. Too much water
and mud would drown the woman.”
Then a Stirrup pump was produced
and used to keep the flames away from
the man who was trying to extricate
the woman, while the fire hose was
directed on to the main body of the
fire.
Bucket by bucket the debris was
gradually scraped away from around
the woman’s legs andTbody. She was
a brave .Spot, no tears, no hysterics;
she never considered her own almost
hopeless case, but told the rescuers to
look under the stairs for the children.
After 2% hours’ work the woman
was brought to the surface. Two of
the sailors were helping to free a man
.whose legs were pinned by timber. A
small tunnel was made through the
wreckage to the man, but although
several pieces of wood were sawn
through, the man could not be freed.
The removal of a ibrick or a piece of
timber might have caused the pile of
debric to collapse. In the end it was
decided to abandon the tunnel and
clear away the wreckage from the top
and side.
Thirty-one people had been buried-
in the ruins. Eleven were got out alive
—nine were recovered and 11 were un
accounted for. .
Chief Petty Officer McLean said to
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'an air raid warden: “Can anything be
worse than man’s inhumanity to man?”
The warden replied: “No, I do not
think so—tonight I have lost my three'
children.”
As five Australian sailors walked
back to their ship .they were amazed-
to see the workers hurrying to their
jobs. Homes wrecked, food shops
gone, streets full of wreckage and'-
glass, and no trams—-yet they all ap
peared determined to “carry on.”
THE LIGHTER SIDE
OF LIFE
“My doctor’s ordered me to give up
drinking for life,”
“That's tough. Still, cheer up;
haps you won’t live long.”
* * * ♦
“You seem very quiet tonight,
land,” said the pretty girl, “Are
—are you sure you love me?”
“Love you!”, Roland exclaimed!.
“Good heavens, Rhoda, when we we re
saying goodbye at the gate .last night
your dog bit 'a piece out of my leg,,
and I didn’t even notice it till I got
home!”
per-
Ro-
you.
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“Have you any cream for restoring;
the complexion?” asked the faded,
spinster.
“Restoring, miss? You mean pre
serving!” said the assistant heartily.
He sold her five dollars’ worth!
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First man: “If you want to go out
with the boys, do you tell your wife?””
Second man: “Rather. He who hesi
tates is bossed.”
BRAIN-TEASERS
1. There are in the United States of
America -«(a) 22 states, (b) 36 states,
(c) 40 states, (d) 48 states?
2. Sinn . Fein, translated literally,,
means - (a) Free State, (ib) Republic,,
(c) Emerald Isle, (d) Freedom, (e)
We ourselves?
3. If by some chance, you went Ber
serk, you would - (a) Weep sadly, (<b)
Greet gladly, (c) Go native, (d) Swear
badly, (e)' Fight madly and violently?"
4. Where is the Valley of Ten-
Thousand Smokes?
5. How many bones, are there in an
elephant’s trunk? !
Please see Page Seven for Correct
answers to these quries.
Men' of 30,40,50
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WELLINGTON FIRE
Insurance Company
- Est. 1840
An all Canadian Company which
has faithfully served its policyhold
ers for over a century.
Head Office - Toronto
COSENS & BOOTH, Agents
Wingham
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 19
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Money To Loan.
Office — Meyer Block, Wingham
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Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Bonds, Investments & Mortgages
Wingham Ontario
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BARRISTER and SOLICITOR
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Telephone 66
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THERAPY - RADIONIC
EQUIPMENT
Hours by Appointment.
Phone 191 wingh^m
W. A. CRAWFORD, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Located at the office of the late
Dr. J. P. Kennedy.
Phone 150
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. Licensed Embalmer and ''
Funeral Director
Furniture and
Funeral Service
Ambulance Service.
Phones: Day 109W. Night 109J.
Telephone 29
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5. Residue
from burned
material
10. Living
12. Diversion
13. Desert
animals
15. Comply •
16. Arabian
chieftain
17. Also
19. Speck
20. Port on
Lake Erie
24. Color
25. Timely
26. Emphasis
29. Male red deer
30. Cold dish
31. Canal boat
32. To bespangle
133. Golf club
’ 34. fever
(contr.)
35. Sacks
36. Tests
38. Exclamation
41. Emmet
42. English
historian
43. Arab
garments
46. A color
48. Discoverer
of radium
M Watered silk
51. Rubbish
52. Travel
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8. Boundary
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