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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-9-2, Page 6Is not et/milled br asni other r tee.. Who's Who in Wheat. Based on a press report starting that d, C. Nlitcbebl, of Dahinda,. Saskatche- wan, intended to try to win back the wheat crown at the International Show at Chicago, the New York Sun recent- ly published the following editorial under the heading "Who's. Who in Wheat,": Montana supplied to the world its champion wheat grower last year when L. P. Yates, of Fishtail, in that state, captured the title at the Inter- national Grain, Hay and Stock Show in the autumn. in Chicago, but Canada, does not intend to let the honor stay !south of the international boundary it its farmers can drag it north. The Dominion now announces that J.' 0. Mitchell, of 17ahinda, Saskatchewan,. who has already been cock of the walk three times ,will be a contestant this fall. Mr. Mitchell was not in the con- test in 1925, but he will be on the shore of Lake Michigan this year. This international competition was Instituted fifteen years- ago, and Can- ada has taken the blue ribbon thirteen times. Seager Wheeler, of Rosthern, Saskatchewan, succeeded in finding top place five times. Nobody else touches Mr. Wheeler's record in this achievement. Canada's hope this year has a typi- cal pioneer's history. He 'came to America in 1906 fi;om Manchester, Eng- land. He did not have any capital. He took up a quarter -section of land forty miles from the railway and went to work. Now he farms 800 acres and is asking the Canadian Department of Agriculture to register a new potato he has developed which appears to be all that a spud can aspire to be. To- day a railroad crosses the Mitchell farm and the homestead is a show place. Mr. Mitchell has &pent very little time telling other persons that there is no chance for a man to -day. He went out and made hichance. And he did not make it by' loafing during the wheat seasons either. .pig Family of Settlers. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Stundebeck, from Minnesota, have recently settled in the Humboldt district, Saskatche- wan, with nine children ranging in age, from two to 19 years. They bought 960 acres of farm land in this district and came with several "thousand dol- lars in cash and effects and farm equipment valued at $11500.. They made the trip from their home in Min- nesota in a motor ear and motor truck an which was built a house large enough to hold the big family, which is the modern style of covered wagon or prairie schooner In which settlers of to -day make their migrations. In the old days the ox or mule -drawn covered wagon took days or weeks to ewer long distances, whereas now the motor driven prairie schooner makes the journeys in hours or days. Modern Learning. School Mistress — "Now, children, what did the Romans do for the Bri- tons?" • Small Girl—"They civilized 'em, miss." Mistress—"And how did they do that?" Second Small Girl—"Please, miss, they taught 'em to fight." Clean Out Dust. A surprising amount of dust drifts into the necks of horn -pipe loud speak- er. It is a good idea to un•sceew the. born every once in a while and to blow out any aoeumulation that is visible. y ty r;,b ra . '' That delicious flavor of fresh. mint gives a new to every fthrilli e bite, Wrigley's is � good ant. good for you, ISS E.' No. 35y a20,._: ib Adis' .,?±�':i'2.sF'•*'°�" ly FROCK OF DELIGHTFUL FABRIC AND DESIGN. The beautiful bordered materials are bringing about many charming developments in frocks these days. Cut with a batteau neck to slip on over the head, this attractive frock elects plaits at the sides to flare the "straight-line" silhouette. A narrow belt appears at the top of the plaits and short ,,kimono sleeves provide a summery air. The diagram pictures the simple design of this frock, and the pattern provides long sleeves: No. 1081 is for misses and small women, and is in sizes 16, 18 and 20 years. Size 18 years (36 bust) requires 2%/% yards bordered material; or 23.E yards 36 -inch 'plain material; long sleeves l in yard additional. Price 20 cents. The secret of distinctive dress lies in good taste rather than a lavish ex- penditure of money. Every woman should -want to make her own clothes, and the home dressmaker will find the designs illustrated in our new Fashion Book to be practical and simple, yet maintaining the spirit of the mode of the moment. Price of the book 10e the copy. - HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- Iy; giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number and address your order to Pattern Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade- laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. British Landscape Spoiled By Ugly Modern Houses England is beooming worried about. its countryside The English country - I side is famous, not only for its lovely landscape, its hedges, meadowsand parklands, but also for its picturesque cottages, many of them hundreds of yearn old and•5of historic origin Many of these cottages, nestling close to the ground, their thatched roofs blending with the contour of the land, are now decrepit; and one by one they are disappearing, to make way for modern houses of practical but ugly design. Post-war real estate "de- velopments" are sweeping away whole colonies of old-time ?English :homes Agitation against this "vandalism" has finally producecd a definite move- ment to cheek it, A number of lead. ing .societies, including the Royal Sa- clety of Arts and the Society for the Protection of Oild, Buildings, is raising a fun of $250,000, to be added to from tinie to time, which will be used tis repair and preserve all worthy ex- amples of rural architecture, so far as- it eit is possible. The fund may shortly be supplement- ed by the Government, which is `cone templating a new housing bill. ;A.s foreshadosteth by Neville Chamberlain, the Minister of Health, loans will be •provided for the repair of cottage pro- perty. While this bill has a,primarily utilitarian purpose, it will autamatical- ly aid in the fight against vandaiiani. Multipiraation. Doctor—"Now take a deep breath and say ninety-nine three times." The Huetier—"Two hundred and 01nety,seven," a Minard'd Liniment tor,tneeot bites. THE WAX LADY BEGIN HERE TO=DAY, Ws a fly customer; cent per cent„ A novelist, seeking nocturnal ad- that's what he +chargesthem," venture, loafs one night upon.a bench "I follow. You and your friends in a Hy 'e Park, London. Conning to- indulged in a •little burglary—at wen' h an he tees a little man carrying Charleville s to -night. But I don't a ]lenge bundle on his shoulder. At quite see why you took this young:•. Victoria Gate the man is. challenged lady away you." by a policeman, curious to know the "Well it's withke this, v'nor. , I ex - you contents of the buudie. , , gu At first the little man is impudent • pect you've 'ad no experience of crib but finally tells the policeman he is on cracking, If you 'ad, if you'd done a his way to his barber shop in Acton, stretch, same as I have, all along o' In the sack he has a wax figure of a being careers like,"you'd know that it Out of curiositythe novelist follows don't do to go about London o' nights the man to learn hether he is seenk• ing the truth. When the man (urns into a (!;rection opposite to the route to Aeton ho chalienges him. The nov- elist offers the man five pounds if he will re rt with hire to the police ata- Jewelry, that's nothing; one can put tion, He notices that the man's finger that in one's pocket, ,But there was nails are stained with machine oiI, lots of other stuff; gold snuff-boxes, NOW GO ON WITH TIIE STORY, silver sauceboats; combs all over dia monde, In would have broken my A glow of hate hung in his eyes; 'eart to leave it. So my mate, 'e 'ad if he had had a weapon I should have an. idea. We got 'old of two of these suffered; isndeed, t, strike,but he deaa i'ere figures; the inside of the stand is ized 'that I had eight inches and 40 or 50 pounds weight to spare. So the shoulder I held struggled, then sub- sided. In a:sulky tone he said: "I had to tell the• cop a tale. I don't see no 'arra in telling you I ain't a 'air - dresser. I'm an engine cleaner." "That's better. Well, what do you want with this lay figure, then? Are. you going to make a mascot of it 'Tor an engine?" "No." "Still, you're telling lies, and taking risks for it. You seem rather attach ed to it. You tell me you paid ten shilling for it?" "That's cheap; at least I suppose so, never having bought one myself. What do you think it's worth?" "Oh, I dunno." "Let's walk along and talk about it." :.", We went toward the west. "Think 4.esa., ane'' again. How much do you think it would cost new?;' "We shared outand, each put his "Couple of pounds." half in a lay figure. "Would it.indeed?" Look here: I've e taken a fancy to it. I'll give you five empty. So we shared out, and we each pounds for it as it stands." put our half in a lay figure. Then we "I ain't selling."' put 'em into the sacks which we'd • "You're not selling for five pounds brought with . us, because you never a thing you can buy new for two know, and off we goes, each our own pounds. Really this is very interest- ing. The poliee , .." "Oh, 'ang it. There you are, talk- ing about the cops again." "I've got to. You've stolen that you can 'ave it fax a 'undred pounds." It was veryetempting"to arrest the "Oo are you calling thief?" man forthwith; no doubt, by- this "You." In a low tone I added: "If means all the property would be re- you tell me the truth I'll let you off. coyered, since the other man could be found. But I But, just one more lie, and I'll hand felt curious; after all, you over." I knew many ladies who hadtheir hair There was a'silence. Finally the done by Charleville; some ' re hard little man cleared his throat, and in a up; one of them had recently received gentle tone said: "Look 'ere, guv'nor, .from me a few valuable little presents you don't want to be.'ard on a pore which it would be amusing to identify. working man. You say you want to So I said:'"No, I'm not going to buy buy the thing. Well, I ain't so fond a pig in ` a poke. I don't mind doing of it. I don't mind selling it, but I a little' business with you: if you think couldn't let it go for five pounds." the stuff's worth it, I'lI give you a "How much do you want?" hundred pounds; I ean't get caught, "Say a 'undred pounds." so I don't mind." I laughed "Now, my man, I'm He twinkled, recognizing a fellow afraid you've given yourself away. crook, dragged at the canvas that was Tell me why this figure's worth a hun- roughly nailed to the . bottom of the we go to died pounds. Otherwise, off figure, pulled' it off, thrust his hand the police station." face. He fumbled in the recess, took up the figure, shook it; then, his mouth There•, was a struggle in the man's fallen open, he turned to me and said: mind. He probably thought of bolt- "There ain't nothing; in it!" carrying a sack full of money, and things like that. Yon got to be care- ful. So when we'd got all the stuff together, my mate and I we didn't quite know what to . do; there was way. Like that, ,when the cop started asking questions, 'e dnn'tatumble to it" He pointed;, to the' ground: "And there's niy 'alf. If yoti say the word, thing. You're a thief." ing, for he moved toward the road, but I stepped on the other side of him. Then he must have decided to trust nie, for in a gloomy tone he murmur- ed: urmured: "You're a gentleman." At last, with fine frankness, he said: "I'll tell II. For a moment the air was filled with .the thin sound of his misery. When, however, he had said about a dozen trees that he didn't know how you all about it. But I can't do it 'ere. it could have happened, I decided to Someone might come along. 111 show be a little rougher with him: you something. - Let's go up that "Look here,myman," I said. I , street"He nodded toward Inverness "You've ve tried to play a dirty trick on Terrace: "There'll be a garden or me. You've tried to get a htindxed many clothes f" Hubby (disgustedly)—"Well, in this• latitude fig -leaves simply can't be grown." Bemuse you really 111' ltve with jour race the std b . Eaur dered to :LL VERY hour of the day you see them. If they have been poorly launder- ed. they are a constant annoyance. Lux laundering will keep them true in both colour and shape-- will permit them to drape ui soft graceful folds. - Be careful to get the genuine Lux. It is sold only in packages _.never in bulk. Leger Brothers Limited Toronto L-544 take the canvas off the bottom first, but • I put it on again after. There was about a • dozen of 'them figures there; waiting to 'ave 'air on. What I think's 'appened is that T picked up one of them lay figures that was empty. And mine, what's got the stuff in it, is in Charlie Vill's back shop now. Oh my 1, this is, a gel" "I . shouldn't wonder," I. remarked. "It seems very likely. I suppose you. were in rather a hurry." ' "One always- is in a 'urry in our business. • My mate 'ad been: nearly two hours opening the safe, and it 'ad got on my nerves like.' When'I'd got my figure full, T didn't 'ang about, I can tell you. I just 'opped it." Once more he • expressed his .misery, his re- sentment against fate, until I stop- ped him. top-ped'him. "Look here," I said,"this is all very well, but tln1e fact remains that you're left the stuff behind,- and there's no chance of you're •going. to get it." "Of course there ain't; it's too late now; I 'aven't the nerve:to risk it, and as for to -morrow night; they'll 'ave 'alf a dozen watchmen, with . 'alf a dozen guns, so that it don't 'appen again wlien it's already 'appened:" (To be continued.), • —o Importers,.. Attention!: Wifle (already scantily attired)— "Women are wearing altogether too something." I followed him in silence, pounds out of until we reached an empty house. We' me by making a p ylieve that in this figure: there was.a were fortunate; the front garden was lot of valuable stuff, and' ..." separated from the road by tall eBut there was." shrubs. Behind some of these we established ourselves. Again the sack was undone, the ghastly beauty ex- posed, looking strangely human and surprised. "Don't talk nonsense." "It must have dropped out." He searched the sack furiously. "What sort of fool do you take me far? How could the things fall out "I got some swag in 'ere," said the when you'd nailed the canvas bottom man. "Fact is, a friend of mine and on again? There never was anything me, we cracked a little crib to -night. in this figure; the only thing that up- sets me is that it's hardly any use handing you over to the police, since you haven't got any stolen goods : . Do you know Charlie Vill, the bar- ber?" -"Of course I know Char:eville." In- deed, this was the name of the most but of course you've got the figure; fashionable hairdress in London, that's probably stolen goods. I think whose shop has stood at. the corner of I'll gaol you for this." Bond Street for over; half a century, ",Don't do that, guv'nor," implored "Well, it's like this: Charlie Vi:1 the little man. "I think I know 'ow ain't only a barber. Ho does a bit of this 'appalled, I'm a bigger feel than business with the fashionable demos anybody'd think and I'll tell you for while lee's doing their 'air; now and why.. I put the stuff in with my own then one of them gets into a bit of t 'ands, Would I tell yo4 a story like mess, cards, and champagne wine, all; that if it weren't true?' that sort of thing, You know," he' "Indeed I don't know,?' went on with a confidential smile: "So: "What do you think I'd tell you I they get short and want to raise a bit 1 cracked a crib for if it 'weren't true? o' money on something: That sort of Ain't the sort of thing a cove boasts woman, she won't want to be seen about to a stranger is iV?" Coming out ." "That may be. But you say you Of a pawnhrolcex s. 1 understand, think you know how it 1•ia;pperied? "You see what I mean,' They takes I "Well, guv'nor, I do :'t know, hut all sorts of stuff to Charlie Vial, jew-i I think it must 'ave beenmlike this. 1 a ry, gold plater keis's-knacks what; took ray 'all, and my mate took 'is 'elf. they pinch in their own drawing -room , We eachgot ane of these ere figures and he lends them money on it,. Oh, off the floor. I Filled Mine, 'I 'ad to Tiiousanda of Birds Die at "Swallows' Pass The swallow, so dear to the hearts of the German, peoples that countless -songs-and poems have been dedicated to them, ere reported .to be on the verge of extinction. ,Investigation .has revealdd that the birds Fare being . electrocuted by, 'the thousands at "Swallows' Pass" in the 'Alps; whish in recent years has been spanned by high tension electric lines from,the power plants of lake Como. On their flights through the Alps to and from North Africa the swallows rest on the wires, and in fluttering about frequently touch two ;vires at -the sai'ne time. " Thousands of dead birds have been found iii the daverne below. Tho Generous Man: "How is it we never get any Bream on our rsiilk?," said the newly. wedded husband. "I complained to the rntiknian," eg-. plained the young wife, "and he said that he always filled our jug so full of milk that there was no room for. cream. He is such a nice tnas," 1' Sir Frederick Williams -Taylor' Montre1 financier and bank president, on a visit to Jasper National Park, Alta: A Hopeless Case.' Willie, who was nearly five, and his. mother were sitting at home one night. • At the table his sister, aged seven, was doing her home work.' Suddenly moth- er looked up and, saw Willie watching his sister. "Well, Willie," she sald, "It will not be long before you willhave to go to school." "Oh!" said Wille, "it's no use sefin- ing me to school." "How is that?" asked his mother. "What's the use of sending me to school?" exclaimed Willie. "I don't know anything; and I can't read or write." Golf Courses for Women. Golf courses for women only are common. in England and Scotland: Feminist desire for complete independ- ence is the cause for the separist movement:. Minard'oLiniment•for Dandruff. Summer, Night. Come, let us forth, and wander the e rich, the murmuring night! The shy, blue: dusk of summer trem- bles above the street. , —Laurence Bin,yon. WHILE. IN TORONTO We cordially invite you to in- speot our ,latest cars at our ex- bibit; or with our Guaranteed Used Oars, centrally located at 900 Bay Street. WILLYB OVERLAND SALES COMPANY IN ULSTER Summer sues" aro glowing a Over land and eta, „Happy 1i13ht is flowing Bountiful and free.' The deep blue of the summer any le overhead, unflecked by a single cloud;: and pictured broadly below it, are the tall trees of different tribes in their varying shades of green, piercing the `- azure above then.. And here, perhaps, is a useful les- son or the artist, showing how deftly nature mixes her palette. Green touch- ing the blued This was once an nap heard -of 'combination!' But is there anything earthly which equals her de- signing? The feathery ashes and beeches shine like openwork lase against that cerulean background; and horse chests nuts, lindens, and larches weave misty Tells above, while the sunshine ,paints their stems Into colors of Doris .art. Beside them hang the loveliest trails of acacias and laburnums. with wild roses•, and meadowsweet and wood- bine, filling 'the hollows at their roots: Denied all' this wealth of foliage spread out the glorious hayfields, reaching down almost to the Shell - strewn sands of the seashore, and where on the sparkling waves a Couple - of swans float majestically, bringing to mind Byron's smoothly running picture of the poetry of motion: The cygnet nobly walks the :water; So walks on earth Ci •caeses's daughr ter. The perfume .of the new -mown hay comes accompanied by the whir of the mowing machines, and the joyous laughter of the riders as they guide their teams, round the ripened ridges, and then later on as they dance with glee on the• top of the springy cocks. Beneath our feet, -starting from: un- der a wisp of hay,—a fairy frog re- sents, being disturbed. Ems• soft pale yellow coat is declared by the hay- makers to be a sure sign of continued fine weather; and so we greet him. warmly. But he seems dubious of our intentions and with "prodigious jumps and springs, seeks another -cover fur- ther on! And above our heads rise and dip in varying circles those sweet .visitors of summer, the ever-weloome swallows.. Nature. • It is really strange how feebly the average human mind reacts to nature. For one thing, there is so much of it. Nature is all out-of-doors, and Una all over the place. Now and then a genius catches some sentimental re- bound from the stupendous ` whole of things and forces and fixes the impret- sion in a memorable line. We call him a poet Or a philosopher, as when the Psalmist sings of the "stars forever singing as they shine." or Kepler ex- :plains x:plains that he is thinking the thoughts• '" of the Almighty after Him. And yet, on th•s whole, the far-flung spaces and the rolling immensities of orb and sphere, together- with the "flower in the crannied • Wall" and the ainfititely elaborate structures of cell' and atom, are accepted by most of us as vast commonplaces which merely baffle comprehension, And it is the same with the regular daily on-going of this huge system of things. Three or four miracles- noth-ing less—happen to all the billions of living creatures every day. There is sunup and sundown, mighty physical transactions of inconceivable immen- sity. If they had.. never haPPened be- fore or were to cease at a given hour, they would b@miracles indeed: But because they go, right on without pause or panic, they are coinmonplaoes which it seems like pure poetic extravagance to mention. And then theme are sleep and -waking—events, to elaborately and mysiteriously contrived' that science has yet to fathom one iota of their es- sential causation. But vaster and more mysterious than all the rest isthe way nature goes on .without any assistance'` from man. Man's pride is in mastery and performance. He schemes and plans and brings events to pass; and yet the total of his performances is but a poor little Siloam Pool of agitated brevities in -the midst 'of the. •calm eternal pro- cession of nature. To a fact like that the mind does• respond, but only in moments• of elevated mood, when it shines with a momentary sublimity, or more likely .in hours of deep humility, when human littleness and futility crash home under the sudden impact of fright and terror in the face of the mysteries of life. ' And yet on second thought it seems to be a blessing that 'we are able to live on sleehconimonpiece terms with nature, to accept its, immensity with so much placid composure, to endure its risks without panic and to be such an insignificant part of it with a recces - cited and cortten•ted heart. "Wee, Modest, Crimson- ' Tipped W d flo er." Caine blew the bitter -biting north 'Upon thy early, humble birth; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm. Scarce rear's above the pareabearth Thy tender form. The, iiaunting ilow'rs our gardens yield,; Nigh shelt'ring woods and wa's name • shield; But thea, beneath the random bield 0' clod or etaae, : Adorns the histie stibble field, • unseen, ,slang. ---Rohet1