HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1956-09-20, Page 11WOMF Iii'S COLUMN
BY MARY GUEST
Cleopatra painted her toenails. Liars. Julius Caesar slicked
down her locks with pomade. So there's nA reason why a man
should Geoff at the bottles on his Wife's dressing table. They've
been there since history began and will remain there as long
a.s women decorate the earth.
Chemistry has played a big part in the development of
beauty aids, but its most sensational contribution to glamour
is in the perfume field. With a quick dab from each of the
essences on her boudoir table milady may run the gamut of
-Strategy," "'Shocking," "Red Satin," "Surrender," "My Sin,"
and r `Tabu." Or she may pick the scent to match .her mood.
But things weren't always so simple, or so inexpensive.
in the old days cosmetics depended on natural materials such
as oils, fats, and acids while today a completely new range of
cosmetics is based entirely on synthetics.
Back in Cleo's time, and even later, perfume was a luxury
few could enjoy. It took nearly 25 tons' of violet petals to
yield just one ounce of the natural oil. Today, however, the
odour is duplicated perfectly in a combination of quite ordinary
plant and vegetable oils. Some of the most exotic scents
come from such unlovely raw materials as coal tar and veget-
able oils. So if your bubble -bath gives off the spicy scent of
pine, chances are the aroma was derived from turpentine,
and that old4ashibned garden charm of lavender comes from
a .by-product of synthetic camphor.
The power of perfume as man -bait is sometimes considered
legendary; but wait, perhaps its potency is underestimated.
In mediaeval England at one time there was a law banning
cosmetics. Apparently it was' illegal for a woman to use
artificial aids to beauty and thus procure a husband under
false pretences. Today's bachelors have no such protection.
Thank goodness.
Getting back to more practical things, however, it's
important to know that the delicious aroma of your perftpne
isn't its most important aspect. A fragrance is worthless if
it disappears five minutes after you touch it to your skin, so
the chemist's greatest triumph was his discovery of the base.
The perfume maker needs a base to prevent evaporation,
and a good base gives richness and strength, and contributes
to the slightly "heady" quality of a good perfume.
Thep finest known base is. the mu';k, said to be the most
alluring of all odours. It comes from glands of the male
musk -deer of Tibet. The cost of natural musk—and• the price
of perfume—skyrocketed until the chemist came to the rescue
and developed a Synthetic musk which can lie produced econ-
omically in a laboratory.
TUE GO ERICI,1$TONAL-STAR
This striking suit in brown viscose.
tweed was designed by Raoul Jean
Eoure, noted Montreal couturier,
for the showings of the fall col-
lection of the Association of Can-
adian Couturier in Montreal on
September 14 and in Quebec City
early in October. Note the inter-
esting sleeve treatment. A cape
effect is buttoned on the sleeve
and lined with seal.
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Save 6n
HEARTY F 'ODS
FOR FALL. at. A&P
"SUPER -RIGHT" QUALITY MEATS
PORK ROASTS
SHANKLESSSFOULTDER
BUTT:ROAST:
PORKCHOPS Shoulder or Butt
MINCED BEEF
WIENERS Essex or Burns
SIDE BAON
COD FILLETS
- Super
Extra Lean
Hot Dog Styie
ib 39,
:fib 9
1b49c
Ib29g
1 -Ib cello pkg 3 5c
Right, Smoked Rindtess 1 -Ib pkg 79c
Choice Quality 2 lbs 49c
Home vegetable storage may be
marked by extensive spoilage dur-
ing the long winter months. This
problem is usually traceable to a
lack of lhnowledOe of specific stor-
age
torage requirements for the several
classes of vegetables.
In general, vegetables are classi-
fied into ,four categories on: the
basis of temperature and moisture
needs when kept over an extended
period. Onions, pumpkins and
squash must, be exposed to a dry
atmosphere and a temperature of
40 to 45 degrees F. Cabbage, cauli-
flower, turnips and potatoes stored
in open bins or shelves. requlre
.damp air and to temperature of 38
to 40 degrees, F. Carrots, beets
and parsnips keep best when pack-
ed in a 'generous quantity of dry
sawdust at 38 degrees F. Celery
must be kept growing in storage
by re -planting it in sand on the
basement floor after 1/3 of the
foliage and some of the roots have
been trimmed off with a knife.
A cellar temperature of 40 to 45
degrees F.' is best for celery.
Full maturity is essential in all
vegetables intended for storage.
This is indicated in onions when
the tops fall over voluntarily in
the garden, in pumpkin and squash
when tie rind is so hard that it
cannot ,.,be punctured with the
thumb nail and in craps Morrie as
cabbage, carrots and beets when
the tops develop a paler color often
associated with a noticeably waxy
leaf surface.
All • vegetables placed in storage
should be sound and free from
bruises. Therefore ;much came is
required in harvesting. Boxes and
pails are preferred to gunny sacks
as containers for conveying the
produce from garden to storage.
Where facilities and time permit
much can be done to assist the
curing processes of vegetables
.prior to storage. The time honor.
ed practice of braiding—'binder
twine and onion tops, with the
bulbs attached, into long ropes
and hanging these on the sunny
side of a building to cure is con-
ducive to good keeping when plac-
ed in storage. At the .Morden,
Man. Experimental Farm, Canada
Department of Agriculture, the
onions with the tops are harvested
when the first severe frost threat-
ens and then placed in a blast of
hot air at 85 ,to 90 degrees F. for
eight to ten days. This is an ex-
cellent method of curing the bulbs.
Pumpkins, squash and - the root
vegetables keep well. if they are
placed in small piles in the field
and covered. with vines or plant
tops 4e cure Alley ey are -trans,.ferrel 16 storage. .. _
�IfLiAI'
JANE PARKER
APPLE
PIE
each 49C
SAVE 100
•
JANE PARKER
ORANGE
CHIFFON
CAKE
each49C
SAVE 10c;
FRESH FRUITS & VEGETAILES
Buy them by the Basket
Ontario Grown Fancy, Crisp and Juicy McIntosh
RED APPLES
Ontario Grown No. 1 Grade Genuine Freestone, Very Finest
for Canning, Heaping Full Baskets
PRUNE PLUMS
Ontario Grown No. 1 Grade, Now Crop, Sweet Eating,
Heaping Full Baskets
BLUE. GRAPES
Ontario Grown No. 1 Grade, Excellent for Eating,
Very Best for Canning
BARTLETT PEARS
6qt basket 79;
PARD
A&P 1'OMATOES
NtT. CRUSH
PICKLES Rose
Sweet Mixed
SAVE 6c
WAX BEANS
LIQUID CERTO
SEALIA-WAX
MASON JARS
Dog Food
SAVE 5c
Choice Quality
SAVE 9aa
McLaren's
SAVE 4c
Jane Parker Daily Dated
WHITE
SLICED
BREAD
24 -oz Loaf
16t
A&P Choice
SAVE 3c
For Better Preserves
Purified Paraffin
Medium Size
4tins41c
28 -oz tins 37c
16 -oz jar 37c
48 -oz jar 7
3.20 -oz tins 47c
8 -oz bbl 2 9 c
21 -Ib pkgs 29`•
dozen 1115
ATLANTIC 8 PACitic reA COMOANV LTD.
Prices Ei'foctivo Until Saturday,
September 22nd, 1950,
GEORGE C. McCREATH
Strickea with coronary sclerosis
while sitting on the verandah of
his home at Highian;d Park, Mich-
igan, on Wednesday of least week,
George C. McCreath was rushed
to hospital but was dead on arrival.
Ire' was in :his 74tri year.
ie, et-ich, <he was a son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. William
McCreath. He attended public
school here and later went to
Western Canada for a few years.
He then went to Detroit where
he was with the Ford Motor Com-
pany for about 30 years. Later, he
went into the real estate business.
His wife died in 1954. '"Surviving
are: one brother, Harry, of Gode-
rich; two sisters, Mrs. D. Thomp-
ssn (May), of Weston, and Mrs. M.
R. McLean (Lottie), of Cleveland,
Ohio.
Interment was in Roseland Park
cemetery, Berkley, Michigan. At-
tending the funeral from Goderich
were: H. A. McCreath; Howard
Fowler; Mr. and Mrs, Randall Mar
'riott; Ma -s. B. Y. McCreath.
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MRS. ISABETLLA ANDERSON
Well-known throughout this dis-
tri Mrs. Isabelia Anderson, 94,
died last Thursday in a .Bt angst: d •
nr'rsing home, where she had bee s
confined for about •two weeks. The
funeral service was conducted by
Rev. R. G. MacMilian at Lodge fun-
etat home, G;:'er:eh, c:n IMcnday
at 2 p.m. Interment was in Cal -
borne cemetery.
Bot n in West Wawano.h Town-
Fh'o, .he was ',he daugh'er of the
lste George Young and Isabella
Clark Young. She resided .•in Col-
borne and Goderich Townships be -
•C moving to Gcderieh, where
ohe spent most of her life. Fotrr
years ago, she moved to Brantford.
Mrs. Anolerson writs a member +•f
frronc Presbyterian ('hurrh and the
('•dnrieh Octcgentirian Club.
Her hu-bans1. ThntrAs Anr'^-'en,
rl'Nd in 1924 Sh' is survived by
tura softs, Witv.am E.. of 14 -an' fog -';
.Tame= A., -f Dayton. Ohio; one
de,,r.',er. T.',et';e. Mrs. obert ('ole -
n': n c•f. Pow I<'anil Aih^rta: eitrht
i'ror;l-.h 'r'i en and 10 g: eat -grant's
rh tt'„r'n
Pallbearers for ;hc funeral were
T: rl -a_- T nix
h, -'h of ,\'ibnrn, "nil F• -ink c"a• It
W:',;• ,,, R et, S-'ntt Yoene and
A. H. Er-kiine, all of Gor'.erich
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Here is an aerial view of the St. Lawrence Power Project. In the background can be seen the canal. Ocean going vessels, using the
new St. Lawrence Seaway when it is completed, may one day be calling at Goderich harbor.
'Hydro's St
THIRTY YEAR
HYDRO DREAM
COMING TRUE
. Lawrence Power.
Neither pictures nor words can
do justice to the magnitude of a
job in Eastern Ontario, now near-
ing the half way :nark, and from
which Huron Couni.y is expected
to eventually benefit. It is. On-
tario Hydro's St. Lawrence Power'
Project where a work force of
4,400 persons is engaged as the
project tears .peak.=image
Accompanied by James Blay,
-pU lie wf, r
the Hydro Electric Power Comrnis-
-oon of Ontario, members of the ex-
ecutive of the Ontario Weekly
Newspapers; Assoeiation, were
taken on a tour of this project last
Friday, courtesy of the H.E.P.C.
On the tour from Huron County
were: Barry Wenger, Wingham
Advance -Times; Don Southcott,
Exeter Times -Advocate; George
'Alis, ,Goderich Signal -Star.
Thi, Visitors saw not only various
sections of the actual deve1apment,
now taking impressive shape, but'
also something of what has been
accomplished in carrying out, the
rehabilitation program in the var-
ious communities ,affected by the
power project:
They were informed that good
weather curing July and August
had resulted in a new record being
e,tablished in the moving and plac-
ing of compacted mater.al for the
Cortrwall Dyke. During August
alone 425,000 cubic yards of this
material were placed. Extending
some 3' miles on the • Canadian
ie of the St. Lawrence River,
this dyke is one of the key struc-
tures which will confine the area
:hat will form the headpond for
the St. Lawrence development.
Dream Fulfilled
The project brings to reality a
dream of Ontario Llydro Which
fought for over 30 years to de-
velop co-operatively the Interna
tional Rapids Section of the St.
Lawrence River, bewtecn Prescott
and Cornwall, for the production
of electricity.
Ontario 'Hydro's vigorous efforts
were finally rewarded on August
10, 1954, when; international sod -
turning ceremonies at Cornwall,
Ontario, and Mas.-ena, New York,
sharked the official start of the con-
struc'tion on the 1,640,000 -kilowatt
pri,jeet, 820,000 kilowatts of which
is Ontario's share. The sch.edul^
of construction provides for the
placing in operation of the first,
Canadian generating units in the
,-ur?;mer of r958, wird completion
of the Canadian project in 1960(
The vital development is being
undertaken jointly by Ontario
Hydro and the Power Authority of
the State of New York.
Harnessing the river requires the
building of two powerhouses and
two dams. The Long Sault Dam
is to create the required headpond
and when the .plants are in oper-
ation, allow any excess flow to by-
pass- the powerhou.;es The Iro-
quois I)am is being bu:lt 25 miles
upstream from the Long Sault I)am
to permit the regulation of the
ruttlow of water trom Lake On
tarin. In addition to the construe -
'ion of these four structures, ab nit
3i<. miles of dykiiig will he built
on the Canadian shore. Thee e
dykes will require some 4,900.f'C0
enbic yards of carth and about
330,000 cubic yards of stone An
ndication of the Immense size of
the' St. Lawrence pnwer project is
revealed in the fact that about 2.7
million° cubic yards of concrete
will, he needed for all stru tures
rn both SRNS of the river. rc�quir
nit 17 million tons of sanil and
2 7 million tens of stone. In ad
rditinn, 20.600 tons of structural
'erl and 20 200 tort. of gate-,
hoists and cranes will be required
'Excavations for tf(e four prinrina'
troctures will include 4,220.Pe0
r'trbie yards of earth and 505,0()
cultic parr'; of rock
iso-routo fQlvor
To assist in the dewaterincl, rif
Project Gigantic
^�A" { '4'�' :h a. r{{.. $ r / •} v r Jyr •;r rrr.: / � .::'�} ..,'�.
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Looking through the frame of a giant house mover, a dwelling is shown on a special highway
dolly, having been placed there by the house mover.
Lie area in which the Long, S
Da -m is to be bunt, advantage.will
be taken of the natural division
of the river into two channls by
Long Sault Island. The dam wict
be buret in -two sections and w.ii e
the southern portion is being con-
structed, the water from the -ou'h
channel will be diverted into tiie
channel north of Long Sault Island.
While the northerly • portion is
being constructed, the total flow
of the river will be diverted into
the south channel and through the
openings left • in the southern por-
tion of the dam previously con-
structed.
Whole communities, chief of
which is Iroquois, are being moved
completely to new towns tes: On
tario Hydro's rehabilitation pro-
gram provides for complete com-
pensation for any inconveniences
suffered in moving. file ' visiting
newsmen saw whole houses be:ng
moved with ease by a- big house
moving machine. They saw where
residents were provided with
houses on the new townsites equal
or better than that in which they
once lived.
All indications point to the fact
Lhat by the end of 1956, the Sea-
way Valley, in the general area
between Iroquois in the west and
Cornwall in the east, will have
assumed proportions and and ap-
pearance which will reflect credit
upon all who hate had a part in
the overall planning and of which
the residents will be proud If
any Signal -Star readers plan to be
in that area it wall be well wnr.h
their while to look the proiert
aver. There are bus tours which
will take them to the point; of
interest.
BORTHDAY GREETINGS AT
BAPTIST MISSION CIRCLE
The September meeting of the
Senior Mission Circle of the Bap -
t,.4 Church was held at the house
of the president, Mrs. Earl R.aith-
by, who presided.
Mrs. Hazelwood led the devotion-
al service. Mrs. Tayinr gave :i
reading 'Phe roll call wa,s an w'~-
r'd by . Church S�•rvic e. enj;:yrcl
'.tip le o•n.Vacatinn"
Mrs .T, hn -ton gave the Temoer-
;in;'c talk and Mrs. Ra 'hby ti; d
the 11 new R'rntt-i-..rr.��;.,,oar.
:_o:ng to new 9:•'d: n 1r qn1 a,
Africa
,:vin , n R Al,
day greet .ntis w""e e xt r r l .` '' 11 e
members for this month.
• TEEN-AGERS .
Ballroom Dancing. Classes
BRITISH EXCHANGE HOTEL
• Fa"!DAY EVENING: 7.00-8.00 •
Physical Fitness Classes for, Ladies
FRIDAY EVENING: 8.00-9.00
Marna de Kurthy, Instructress
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THIS IS THE TIME
"Peter Scott"
Cashmeres and Botany
"Kitten
(Petal Orion)
Botany Wool