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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1919-6-26, Page 2Used in Nkillions r o Tea � 4 .l Its Intrinsic goodness in Tea Quality .. makes it the most Economical in Use 8 577 lteeiJing Ants Froom the Home. Nearly every one is familiar with ants and knows something of their habits, str.:ceure, mode of living, etc.' They vary iii size front the tiny red ant that it so frequently foetal in the kntehen and pantry, about one - sixteenth of an inch in length, to the Youth Writes a Letter to Love By EVELYN GILL. A COLORED SOLDIER'S FEAT. Won 'Renown` by Stopping a German Raid Single-handed. Standing off a German raiding party did not demand the hardest fighting of the war, but it called for quick action and, in the experience of one colored PART I. were not there, and then starting out soldier, a struggle against trenierdous- If you've had any one in Frame, alone in his little car. She often you know about Mary. Hopkins; for thought of him driving, driving alone All grades, Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS G. J. CLiFF - - TORONTO addl. B & I Infantry, y aohos wears the EGGS When theme" even the men, she had never nursed through the summer evenings, and French war erose, landed in New York talk abont her. They say there has saki to herself, "Poor kidl" never been anyone like her for just It was queer how everything keeping you up. For, when woman's brought their lives together those tenderness would have broken you days. It was featly she who gave down so that you couldn't have gone him his excuse for going into the on enduring, it was the coal, firm stationery shop that day. They were grip of her hand that brought you at the luncheon table, Mrs. Ham - through the pain -stricken night. mond, Godfrey, and herself—who Mary Hopkins—as homely end, was a marvelously efficient person commonplace as the rubbers you in the sick-roem, but here at the wear an a stormy day! Even at a girl silver -lavished table of the Ham- she was like that: square -shouldered, monds a little awkward and out of square -chinned, with heavy eye_ place. The very ease and charm of brows and heavy straight hair. She the Hammonds, mother and son, led her high-school class in mathe- seemed to accentuate her awkward- maties, and had fewer partners at ness, making her appear by compari- the class dance than any other girl. son someone who distinctly belonged It was then that she made up her among turpentine stoups and salt rubs mind that she wasn't ever likely to and thermometers and poultices. have an especially good time in life, That day at luncheon she had it is not wise to take it for granted and she might as well devote herself spoken of a magazine article on in that all country life in Canada makes to a noble career. She chose mgrs- Pantile paralysis that she wanted to a child happy and healthy, It must rug• read, and Godfrey had risen to very be admitted that too much farm labor And it's ft curious fact that the unusul gllantry. "I'll get the interferes shockingly with the =h first kiss she ever ha„-• xeepting, of magazine for you, Muggins, this schooling, overtaxes his strength, and course, those from relatives and afternoon," he told her. impairs his future usefulness, "I can get it myself," she told him brusquely. others that don't count --was the one young Godfrey Hammond gave her lurge, black carpenter -ant that lives «ilii Germany disposed of, our; brother and sister through bronchitis' bet is cooky you have a turnip where in decayed stumps or old timbers,' g you ought to have a heart." They occur in all parts of the world thoughts can again turn to the at-' the spring that she almost gave up Then interposed Dirs. Hammond, home problem of disposing of that; nursing to take a rooming house with from the dry and arid deserts to the { gain — ate Fly, i the spring she was nursing his little "Muggins," protested Godfrey, "PIE ver present men ^te the fly her sister Bessie, patiomztrig as i ways. torrid zoa.t to the arctic male. happened to kiss her Ah cracked n few it busted up, too. ' is hantry,ome without a fly swatter anl a! was this: he stole a custard from the he wants to be useful; Muggins. It "Ali didn't stop to ask no iiitraduc• someesummer"sFda to get soe goes to theme cake baby and where there's a baby there, tra • she was carrying upstairs to the • may never happen agcin." .tions er excuse niyself, but jes' salted and finis that the frosting is covered ought to be two swatters, one for; little invalids, stole it like a bad child, s`o So it .s really Muggins, uncoil- in, a-grabbin' out mal French bolo, with; tiny reel ants. mutt Further investiga-, father and the other for mother to; and then kissed her like an mpertt- l yaided and abetted by God- when shah gun went bad. One yelled tion reveals them in the butter, sugar; use• !hent one. It did queer things to her. Frey , mother, who was responsible in English, '(1h, that Mack brute has' P'�sfor ,t Poison—any and hutInc errand' the., n a�tv all kind. itc1 tos 'on iI. made h1 tatt c sho ..�a hands t•ry p , tremble over andJe he. running all over everything ge should he kept high enough to be dishes go that they clattered and stil-got ryes, yo alai!! ash rule Bland Awn p g g that afternoon.. He wnuld have g nes ,.. parently. Sometimes it is the forger well out of the reach of eaildren and.. led their contents. Then she told it is true, anyhow; bet in case other sere try and gat you:` 1 sez to myself, back species which c<.ri a its love domestic animals. If insect uwdershe, customers might be there he was for sweet tliJti^� to <he Cumar bawl 1' herself sternly that wasn't getI saw one guy that looked like a loot damp tropical forest, and from the e The swatter --to he sure, no house The waw he • "Do let him get the magazine if he told the following story to a report- er of the Evening World; "You see, it was this way," he be- gan. "I was on post witlyNeedhant Roberts. Along 'bqut two o'clock I said to myself, 'I bear some snippiif. of them wires out. there,' and I called Roberts, but while be was a -corrin' I reached down and slid the lid often a box of hand grenades. He didn't come; so 1 put 'ern in a row up in front of me. "They lzept on snippin' my wires, and I let go with a grenade, Then I grabbed my ride and let go with thir- ty-one clips of bullets. Some German bullets come ilyin' back, and I yells down to Roberts, 'Better come on up here! Every Dutchman in the woods is out here, and I'm gain' out and take dat hill," "Roberts rushed up, but he went right down, shot in the hip and through lois arm. I was shall tossin' out dent band grenades, boss, but Itoberts, a- lunthlin' with Itis arm, got in my way. "'Get on down in youalt hole!' I yells to him. 'Pass me them grenades and git away from mall feet. And pass 'em quick!' Then I grabbed mat gun and was a•puuapin' it to 'em when the thing stuck, So Ali jes' jumped up and started after 'em with mah gun, a.swingin' it hard and heavy. Soon as ' , is used be careful not to scatter it' ting out of doors enough nowadays, glad of the excuse of the magazine. How ani I to get rid :,t them? It ase b' And so, almost suffocating with of course, useless to try and kill them "out the room and tilos. the which was bad for her nerves, quite, , g' cue at a time, like "ewattirg the fly." roofs, forgetting Dickie the caniary.' as if size had not just been kissed on I��3 of expectancy, he went into the The first step i to rake ererythirg seire are very susceptible to �a:we; tie stairs. j little shop where the shopkeeper's out of the :rte tea plea e, clean every- tf }ng tha :huts oft their supp.. of And this was the way, too, that' slim, blond daughter Mary sometimes thing, bumini; papers, and throLv' gorge air, E she dealt with herself during the sola-' waited on customers. away or clean out any infested fao:is. a Tanglefoot—plenty of it. Hong sequent days when she and Godfrey He was right in thinking he would Any or cl tr'.' are lately to aurae# the kind that comes in rolls from the were of necessity thrown much to; find her there, for this was the time this inert Bice caice bread. sugar. 'gas jet and if sister run, against it gether, since Mr. Hammond was of day when she usually deigned to n'at and I etude for' hint, Boss. Ali was a-gaoiu' strong and suali made 'em step some. But then some Ger- man got me down on malt knees, when he done whanged me with the butt of his gun. Whew! it suah hurt, but Alt - jes' kept on n-grabbin` one and tossin' him right over my shoulder. "Ah guess that row mnsta lasted meat and eimilor sea tame... shoulti 'i't. •caxries the hall oft' nttaehe�i to home only for week -ends and 14Irs. exchange magazmes and newspapers] a half a hour before they got relief be plated ii ant-r;roef metal contain- see t'ackl,air, ne.•'r mind, you ;are Hammond had breakfast �in bed and for small coins across her father's out to me. Ali was pretty well mussed. ers or set over a dish of water in Waging a great coax, and wino canusually had her lunches at the eoun counter, crooking the little finger of up, and so was Roberts. But the !tun - stop to think of trifles. The kitten try club, her over -white, o ringed, over- net took goad care of ars and kept hie whget at ich the antes will drown in ood. The source of tl e may wrap herself in it, to her terror, , the manicured hand as she did it, with the regiment, and Ah knowecl Ah colony shtu�'<I- U loeate,1 If t it the, ar,d father may sit on the s1 eet you, ho se,n Mrs. Hammond lrtreatedren in her She was chatting, as Godfrey en- liad tried hard to be a t;aod soldier, so t"flier the flail ar in the wall the+have laid, for just a moment, in his maternity as if it were really one tered, with a stout, middle-aged man Ali was happy." , favorite r. 'r bi liar, i • tche� flies 1. liberal use of carbon bisulphide wiIi ; ,, � but to e. a s of lifer ornaments. She usually wearing A very bad necktie pierced soon hill the queen and attendant wen, and that is the real iesue. i stopped in passing the sickroom, it through by a horseshoe scarfpin. She ante. A' old wood -box may bethe 1`orma•t}ehyde -that is perhaps is true, for kisses and to say pretty dict not look at Godfrey as he entered, hat she snetoef the trouble or it nest may l'e! mixture hest et' �conaposeci ofll. In an l ten eparter stof the little hinLs to thgirl e chgrew env se, there t the nightwere: n ut } aware e eof his w tlnpresence,ctively land one Ir. using the ground carbon the leiculacide e<trepelnjfermalciehrde, eighty-eight parts of. only Godfrey and frightened servant,s,ringed hand went up to give a satis- ,nater and two parts of sugar in the to help the nurse. That is the night fied pat to the blond hair in a flat must he taken that no light or fire i is near, as it is yert inflammable. centre of the dish put a ;mall Gponge he said to her, ''`Huggins" (which scallop against her cheek. I' ants like the sweet things in the and set where it will not be disturb was the children's name for her),; There was an ingratiating sound. cupboards one of the best remediescd. The flies drink the mixture and; ":4iuggins, you area darling." in the fat man's voice that Godfrey is to mix one part el ernetie die almost immediately•. With this; That was the first night, too, she did not like. He wanted to kick him with twenty parts of extracted honey. Syrul-, may be used in the absence of the honey. Put this in small cancers and place where the ants will have access to it, but where it is inaccessible to the children or Love's Labor. household pets. If the ants are grease eaters use grease instead of What have I lane to day, novo let as with all other poisons be very; dreamed of him ---a dream of strange out; he longed for the day when he careful to keep well out of the reach' tenderness, would have the right to say that his of domestic animals, children and: "Potato salad," she said to herself Diary should never again stand be- careless people. It's the fly you are next morning; "that potato salad at hind her father's counter. after. supper. 1 aught to have had more Then he heard something that sense." paralyzed him. She found it necessary, too, to keep "All right, dear,"' the hard, little reminding herself that, even if he voice of the girl was saying. "I'll wait for you this evening." "Dear," she had said. "Dear!" And she was saying it to that revolt- ing beast of a fat man! A. certain sickening numbness came over him. Even when the customer had gone he could do nothing but stand there and gaze at her. (To be continued.) the honey in the eame proportion" as! me think, was twenty-one and only two, years above. i I haven't read the rock I should: younger than herself, he was merely If ants are troublesome in lawns! have read one of the Hammond youngsters, two ar in the garden, where they are ! I didn't make that call on Mrs. Brink. of whom she was nursing through building their rests, they can be Nor spend the youth -restoring hour bronchitis. killed even more rapidly than in the in bed. But he was lonelier than the other Nor massage out the wrinkle in my children. He had a way of wandering house. Drench the nests with bailing; water or pour into then a small cheek, restle'ssiy about the tierandah in the quantity of kerosene or coaI oil. An -1 I didn't bake the fruit -cake, but evenings when his father and mother other method is to inject bisulphides - may -he I wrought as well—I sang my son �__. of carbon into the nests, the quantity] to sleep, Don't Look For Flaws. of the chemical depending upon the, size of the nests. After this fluid I Close cuddled and content upon my Don't look for flaws as you go through has been poured in. the entrance to knee• life, the nest should be closed by a blank - ,.And even when you find them What have I done to-day?—I missed It is wise and kind to be somewhat et or inverted pan placed over it in i the Guild order to retain the chemical. The And quite forgot shoppingblind fumes of the bisulphide will pentr«teE i g my trrp And look for the virtue behind them, to town; Fo"r the cloudiest night has a hint of slowly through the underground ' my music rack with treasure amply light channels and kill the ants. Child Laborers. Does the compulsory school at- tendance law protect children from heavy work and long hours in the fields? There are interested and vigorous school officers who do their best to enforce the law; but even at complished more. best the period of attendance requir ed is meagre. There is always a What have I done to-day?—now let loophole through which children may be piped to work. If Canada is .to be a country of healthy and intelligent people, both parents and children must realize that school is better than work far children until they are sixteen. It is quite true that "the niore you learn the more you'11, ce. n.' , gnash kind Most of us thank f the farm as Made Mothers to be guarded safe 'Ap,. p el piocc, tsd no one can 'u.es- _ from harms, -.'n the wholEsomenes bi m sach an To train a baby's active, eager mind, farm life. Reit 'Coe leave learned that To hold a little lad in Ioving arms. filled, Somewhere in its shadow hiding, I left the cover of my organ down. It is better far to hunt for a star I didn't sew the new flower on my Than the spats on the sun abiding. hat, But son and I played marbles on The current of life runs every way the floor, To the bosom of God's great ocean, And ,there was virtue quite as much. Don't set your face 'gainst the river's in that course, - Perchance than though I had ac- me see, I've put, the paltry things frum out my soul, I've mothered Laddie and he's played with me And we've been happy; making 'that my goal. I've led why God, creating hu - CENTURY -OLD JEWS. "Chosen People" Enjoy. an. Average Longer Life Than Any Other Race. A marked distinction - between- the Jew and his neighbor is his longevity. This is attributed tothe strict dietary laws of the "chosen: race," and to the frequent ablutions which their re- ligious ceremonial demancts ft is a truly signtiThant fact that those Jews who abstain from eating pork are practically free from cancer. Ape t 'ently, if the Jews know iiow to .u•„';e ste money, they also know hpw:to preserve good health, for they enjoy remarkable immunity from con- sumption, cholera, and typhus. In 1348, when the Black Death wasrag- ing throughout England. the Jews were exempt from the plague. Jews are, of course. subject to the, ordinary ailments of life, but they can boast of an average longer life than any other race, Among the Jewish community it is not uncommon to hear of ' a- co -re- ligionist who has "topped the cen- tury.” Ask for h inard's and take no other. And think to altar its motion; Don't waste a curse on the universe, Remember it lived before you, Don't butt at the storm with your puny form,- But bend and let it fly o'er you. The world will never adjust itself To suit your whim to the letter, Some things must go wrong your whole life long, Ann tl,e sooner you know it the beer; It is folly to fight with the infinite, And go under at last in the wrestle, The wiser man shapes into God's plan, As the water shapes into the vessel. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. PRAYING BY PROXY Government of Ieglia Safeguards Native Religious Customs.. Praying by electricity is practiced by the Buddhists in India. The pray- ers, written on •Iong pt per bands, are wrapped round a wheel; and each turn of the wheel is equivalent to onerepetition of the prayer. The pious native believes that the greater number of revolutions of his prayer wheel the better will his prayers be answered, and he either turns it by hand, or lets the wind or. water turn it. The watercourses of India are now being harnessed for the purpose of producing electricity, and but for the thoughtful care of the Government the native would be deprived of one means of turning his prayer -wheel, especially in the hot weather. The Government, to overcome this difficulty, and safeguard the religious customs and traditions -of the natives, compels the electric companies to equip the wheels with motors, and supply the necessary current to turn them during the dry season. This is to be done free of all charge to the natives. p Up To Youl It's a gloomy day, a tomby day, A blue and dismal rainy day, A sad, forlorn and tearful day,. If you would make it so: A lonesome day, a sighing day, A cheerless and a crying day, A_"what`s the use in trying" day-- It's up to you, you know;. . • It's . a glorious day, a happy day, A joyous and a buoyant day, A inerry, laughing, snappy day, - If you would make it st` A brilliant day, a sunny day, A rare, a fair, a funny day, le "good- for making money" day— It's up to you, you- know. Soldiers Talk do Sleep. Observations on soldiers in Military hospitals, as given by Dr. E. Copiaii;s in the British Medical Journal, show .that. 60 per cent. of the men in one ward talked in their sleep with con- versations going on between beds. The sleepers answered.: questions and gave away sercets, The._ex-Emperor William II. was the first king of Prussia who ever lost his throne. Keen 7 inard's Liniment in the horse. QUEEN'S ARTS Part of the Arts course maybe covered by correspondence. 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