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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-5-8, Page 3Scout •Tectalnent•pu} lished, The Boy Scouts A.gcociation'is glad to be able to a'iinounco the publication, of a Boy Scout Testament bearing the Insignia of ihe•Association and a spe- clal preface containing, ,the Scout Pro', mise anl Lw and a list of New,,Tes- -lament Scripture 'reading on the Scout, Law. • When taking his investiture each }3oy Scout ,promises on his honor to. -do his best to do his dirty to God. In makingthis the first icon of the Boy Scout Promise; the Boy Scouts As sociatlon, declares its conviction• that. to boy,: can, become the best ,hind of Canadian citizen without recognizing his obligation 'to God. It is the belief of leaders at SQouting that the -Scout' programme, properly carried out,' of- fors, one of the most natural and effec- tive means for developing a boy spirit- ually, Next to the Scoutmaster's ex- ample and the troop meeting and,,camp; atmcsnhere, one of the definitely ef- fective opportunities for touching the boy's religibus Sside occurs at, the' camp fire, particularly the Sunday Scouts' Own,• 'This- is tiie ideal occasion for the reading: or telling of stories from the Bible calculated to inspire the high Chinking and Christian living which .is the underlying thought'' of• the ScoutPromise; and Law., The System Needs "Spring Cleaning," Just As The Home Does. TANLA Has Been Called ' The World's Greatest Tonic By Over 100,000 Persons, That 'Who Have Testified Tanlac Has Helped Them Regain Their Strength and Health;: How to :Become a Scout. Any boy. 12 years or over desiring to become a Boy. Scout may, apply :for membership at the Headquarters of the nearest troop, on its regular meeting night. In case there is no troop in his neigh- 'borhpod or town, the ,best course, in company With the other boys interest- ed, is to call upon the Sunda,; -school or day school teacher, clergyman, or other prdspective leader selected, and request him to organize a Scout Troop. On application to Provincial Boy Scout Headquarters, 238 Bloor Street East, Toronto, all necessary information will bo ';gladly 'furnished. Boys between 8 and 12 years of age may in a similar way bo organized as. a Wolf Cub Pack. ,Boys >_over .16 may organize them- selves as them-selves'as a Rover Patrol or Troop, and will be furnished the instruction neces- sary on: application as above. Bands and Busted Troops. We quote the following from -a con g tehpoi•ary whose experience with troop bands must have been similar to our own: �{iymn boolro, were in the nature Of ?their,: authors' 'Swan songs the feral-.:' er being written two months before the Rev, II. 'I E. Lyte died, and the let'-: iter Yin ; Tennyson'S eighty' -first` year, Interest is added also. ,to _ "God moves in .a mysterious way when it is •known thatthis hist, and probably' greatest, piece of work on the pert of William Cowper was: composed dur- ing a walk just as he felt that his brain was giving way. DON'T GAMBLE WI�CHi JR HEALTH, 'DEMAND THE YOUR BEST ,Tanlac Has ; Benefited Thous- ands -of Persons...Suffering From Sufferin- From - stomach Trouble, Indigestion,, .Rheurnatisn , Nervousness and Kindred Ailments •- Tarllac. Is For Sale le By All Good Druggist's —Accept No Substitute— Over 40 Million Bottles Sold. "Music hath, charfns :;to soothe the savage beast- Moreover, it seen;s.that wien music is organized,:in the form of a' cout band its. soporific influence S a is effective . enounh to hill into e:"dream- less sleep interest in `the: basic pro oramme of Scontinggn;the part of the Scouts involved. ' "The' difficulty is that few. .boys r 'have• enough spare time 'to take care. of two such -activities as practicing for and makingprogressin .a band Scout- ing. S • ut- ing. Consequently, if; you are think- ing of starting a band, DON'T..": THE ROMANCE OF HYMN -WRITING its The need his Sunday school scolars had of a suitable hymn to sing at their annual Whitsuntide procession Caused by Starved -Nerves Due.. led the late Rev. S. Baring -Gould to write his "Onward, Christian Sol- diers"; and his "Now the day is over" was inspired by the sightof a ._won- derful sunset over Brixham ;Harbor,' affect any nerve of11e l;ody. Differ - the first draft being written on an old ent names are given to it when 11 at; envelope hastily pulled from his pock- fects certain nerves. Thus `neuralgia et at the time. of the sciatica nerve is, called,sciatica; These two hymns are by no means but the .character of the pain and the alone in having an interesting, not 'nature of the disease is the same, and to say ,romantic, origin. •; the remedy to be effeetiva, must be "Oft in, danger; oft in woe," is air- the same. The pain,`whether it takes other which' has romance connected the form of sciatica or whether 1t af- with its writing• If was found after fects the face, and. head, is caused by starved nerves. The, blood, which normally carries, nourishment to the nerves, for some reason ne longer does so and the excruciating •tiain you feel is the cry of the starved nerves for food. The reason why the,,'alood fails to properly nourish the nerves is us- ually becau' e the blood od itself is weak and -thin: ' _ - lt, - When you build up the Impoverished Many Miles frOnfAnYwhere. Which town^o1 the world.isthe most isplated?- , The answer to Manges, ;on the Rio Negro, not •far from that mighty` tri- butary's junction-witli:ihe Amazon. It isthe Only' town of -Amazonia, and is . situated a thasand miles flen any other civilization, Yet with all itsisolation•it has many up-to-date features -a *harbour, elec- tric lifts, a fine tratnivay system, an electric power -Station Which:lights the town . and cooks its foods' and cools ite;roams, a --pure water s'iipply, several newspapers„a fine^theatre; a rhuseunl ot, coins—but no railway. eta- 'From any part of the bowir,t h eunlej g can be reached in -a, twenty -minutes' walk: Alligatpts aro; the Sole inhabit- ants of the, oppiosite''bank of the river; and. jaguars have attacked pedestrians within rifle siiotiof. the tram -lines! The view' fronia the ,cathedral tower 1e of unbroken forest, , yet the town lit n lish colon contains a hospitable L g Y and an English c1ul The river is called "Negro” because its waters are 'black, and where it a have the Amazon a 'steamer ban , its bows :in inky water and its stern in the brownish waters,of the 'greatest river,in the world. PAINF AND EU 13Y L,JR., Ja J. MIDDL oA ON.. Provineisi Board of: Hoatth,,Qtctdwic, Middleton will 'be:;glad to answer g wotiorts' et^Public i:-ioaltls •tt:& terve ;tbrottl,h,thts, Colurrrn• Address hint Fat � aslisntt fftou e 113 Craoessut rszonto, Lye .fatigue is an important subject', for discussion. A lart;oIiercentage of; 11 province are rags; the r;eo le of tis >, -, peoplep aware of the dangers to their eyesight, that result from' fatigue. We, have only one pair • of eyes- that is, those of us who are blessed,, with normal - vision, ,and the eyes we, have are the only ones we ever will have. It is most impottant%therefore that we, try to preserve oSr•signtas much as possible and not subject ,t to ally unnecessary strain Far alony; time it vias thought that strain on the -eyes ,only applied to students.'-` -Scarcely ' anybody suffered from eye headaches except' the, book- wormns. Now, we 'find brat many other classes of people are af,ected with eye strain. Take the farmer plowing his furrow, who looks steadily at the ground hour ,after hour trying to keep in :a straight line and trying not to "bite off" too much or too little earth at each Poll of the sod: To 'do- this he keeps his eye muscles: in the same state of contraction 'all day long: When evening comes he often has some little bit of ground' to finish and keeps on l in the fading light, thereby increasing the strain to which he has been sub- hjected all day, His 'muscles get tired, is nerves get tired, his brain gets tired and the when he goes home he often subjects his eyes to further strain by doing chorea about the house or barn or reading the paper , in im- perfect light:. There is nothing that sooner reflects .on the general health of the individual than' eye strain, for it has a. very strong influence on the general nerv- ous mechanism of the body and con- tinuous eye strain may lead in time to general nervous 'breakdown. , The eye is a most intricate piece of ..to Weak, Watery Blood. People think of 'neuralgia as a pain in the head or face, but neuralgia may Henry Kirke White's death, written on the back-of'orie of hiS mathemat- ical fhisrnathemat- ical papers: It was incomplete, and as usually sung was completed by Frances Fuller Maitland. Inep!ration of a Mowent. The Words of •"Our -Bleet Redeemer, ere Tie Breathed" came to Harriet Aub'er as she lay,. ari invalid,` on `a `couch beneath 'the window of her room. Having to writing material a t bl d tl Dr V illiams'Pick Pills s you hand, and beingfearful lest see attacking sciatica ueuralgfa and kindreddiseases at the root. As of the value of Dr. Williams' Pink pills in cases of this kind we give the state- ment of Mrs. Marion.•BeIl, Port Elgin, Ont., who says:—"Some-'years'-ago I Newman has told us that he corn- was rtittacited..3vith sciatica in,,iny leg posed'Lead Kindly Light whilst the and hip: .The pain was exeriiciating orange boat which was bringing* him and finally I' was forced to go to bed. on' his way from Italy to England at Apparently all the doctor could i do was the time, lay becalmed in the Medi- to give me drugs to dull the, pun, as teReginn. t , otiherwise I' found ;no relief. 1' ad Reginald Heber wrote From , been'in bed with the trouble "n : -lit T 9nt re ligand s .e Mountains" in res- Greenland's e o , y1 fro cstme� 1✓eeks when a 'lad w poiise to a` request from his father-in- law, Dr. Shipley, Dean of St. Asaph. and Vicar of Wrexham,>that he would write something for them to sing at the missionary, service in church on the following morning., The first three verses were penned in a few minutes, and- on seeing them the Dean said: "That will do." "No, to," was the reply, "the sense` is not complete," and, sitting down again, the* future Bishop o:E- Calcutta added the fourth:verse: Waft, waft ye winds His story." Written in Record Time. But "0 Love that will not let. me go" ,is probably the most quickly written of ,a11> deservedly popular hymns. Inspired by. a secret sorrow, the. iv*l iter the Rev. * George `Matheson •should forget', them, ,she scratched tate verses herwell known hymn on :'it � of o y pane of "the window, using -,her Mond. "sin for the p lar• rose.' mo gp p The `Pencil Thiiaker. "Look at that boy." • "What*is the `boy doing?" "He is trying to;think." • How do you know lie is trying to think?" "I know . he is trying to think be cause lie is sucking his; pencil. "Does he think he can get ideas out of it in that way?" I -Ie probably doesn't: think; about it at ,all. It is just a nasty and dangerous habit." g " Wlay is it, a dangerous habit?" "Because somebody with a: disease. may also have been trying to suck ideas out of the same peneil.' I never thought of, that." "Yes. It's not thinking which causes many accidents, much suffering and deaths. Whenever pan you isee a Y pencil with tooth -marks on the end you will know' that it has been used by somebody who doesn't think."—The -Nation's Health' - y '• , b , took only five minutes overethe work , , Probebly Fright.' • Fuc.--- •What' rnakos' thaw frightful ars?" ilc--"Probably fright," A Recoil. . A woman had invited a few friends to play bridge, - "'I wish, they not. coming," site' said, to her maid; "but when people ask 'you out, :. you must have thein back." cl.," ti "Of ro>l.se, ma'am," came the rePlyl "One"" 1st, aetaliatL-1,,. must c, • ivory i -or c/,!?uloid: knife To clean ave ,y lice e f lemon witha slice dip. n dl es It 11a ped in salt. This will whiten thein , and they can then .: be washed and dris;d ` in the Usual manner. 1,1• :is free from 'ktnger Who,'even1 ween he is etfe,.l P11 guard, after -which 'he -never' either retouched or corrected it. "Abide with me" and' "Crossing, the Bar,"which finds a place in some See me said that she :had had :a similar at- tack, and had only found relief though the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Fids. I decided at once to tryy this medicine, and before , I had taken more than three boxes I found relief:' ° I •continued the use of the pills and under the treat- ment the pain left ine. I was able to walk again; and have not sine had the least return of the trouble: I feel that Dr. Williams' Pink -Pills 4° have been of such great benefit to me;e. tb,at similar ilffoie•, t I strongly urge:u 1 5 ss o give thema fair trial.", • , You can get thesepills from' any aidYor b mail at 5 0 ens' e' kine dealer t a box from The Dr. Williams' i fedi- cilo CoBrockville, Ont.* .t, What -makes one admire a n,,;t>l§,r's love and marvel at it is a photo= r. ,ph yen at the.: age of. ourselves taken g �l E. 0 rtw.� apparatus urld very delicate in its constructions , No machine made by mai is so periect;in construction or so elaborate d design. To `serab the eye, in n1es�t than ttvelve muscles are: pro.. _.s 5 l vided. Of the twelve iniportant nerves thatc me off ,diji•ectiy from the brain; ore -third' or four are for the service of the, eye., ' • Shortly after the start of life we are endowed, with good eyes and if cage is •taken we preserve them. But. thereare rnany . pitfalls; by the way, ,and from one cause or another the eyesight becomes not so good as it should be. There is the question of strabismus or squint to be: thought of. This often develops in early life. due to weakness of ; certain of the eye muscles whichs from:one cause or an- other fail, to- develop as they should and thus .the more powerful • and more developed 'muscles rotate the eyeout of its•.o er place and the . condition com.ngnl p y known as squint results; There is a remarkable lack of :knowl edge about the seriousness of,"squin t Many ,people have the 'opinion squint in children will right itself if left alone. There . are thousands of one -eyed edpeople in this province to . day just because their parents thought they would' allow the squint to right itself. Intelligent and proper medical treatment', of the eyes inesquint is the only way bywhich one can hope for Y good results. Never leave a case of squint to right itself: Go to an oculist at once, and especially in the case of young children this condition of squint should be rectified if possible' before the child is five years old. If allowed to go longer, the sight of the "turned" eye will most likely be damaged for life... An ounce df prevention in this case is worth a pound of cure. Ask' for Minard'e and take ° no otho Birds of a Feather. Blackjack, Bill—"They sure is raisin' time in that Teapot Dome job,: ain't they, ,Take?" Stick-up Jake—'"Yeah! It jes seems like they won't let°;us `fellas alone." .. ` How' the English' Make Toffee.,, sugar and Mix four cups. of brown g half a cup of, corn syrup with half a cup of water, and -put on the stir- ringfire, 't 1 the sti ar is ncil al carefully u g dissolved'. Let - this come to a boil, and' then take off the- fire and add' four tablespoons of butter. Put,the'mix- ture back on the stove once •more and boil until the butter.has penetrated throughout the candy.': Pour` onto a greased enameled ware tray of any kind" and, as the candy cools, mark it i has hardened into squares. When t break these apart and wrap each piece separately in wax paper.: Incidentally, you will find that the labor of "clean- ing up" is a great deal less if you have used air enameled ware saucepan for the cooking, since- even' the stickiest mixtures do not adhere long to its por- slain -like surface.' Courtship by. Cards. The visiting card is sof Chinese orig- in. The Chinese have always observed the. strictestceremony'with regard to the' paying of visits. It is reported ago that more than a:thousand years g visiting card was used in China. the vis g Nowadays the cards used are very, large, and usually of a bright red color. The Chinese employ visiting cards ship When a, man to assist their courtship. en' is ready to. marry,,his parents inform, a .professional "matchmaker," who. looks through a list of her clients and, after clue consideration, selects the one she considers would make a suit- able bride, She takes his carer, upon which are inscribed his ancestral name and the (late of his birth,,, and calls upon the girl, If the latter; is willing to listen to his suit, she sends her own card in /T- urn,. After that the oracles are con- sulted, and should they prophesy good`' concerning, the marriage, the details of the engagement "are written on two large cards which aro -then tied to- gether with red cord. _.� - No Ambition. The election just fought has been prolific it good stories. One told by Aar; Walter Runciman particularly fleet, A certain candidate was trying his level best` to win'the hearts of his audience. Ian English ng fish born and bred," he announced. "My` father andgrand- father -English, her wei -En lish my wife is Eng- lish, ,my works are, in England, and glish." • or ' arE a 11 %7n a e ar. m:t�• 01 b Y P 1 ' in came At that- point a pitying voice from the, batik of the hall: "Ori, riled," it Said, "has ye nee am- beetion?" • Keep Minard's•lJinimetst 31:+ hollue, SAVED BABY'S LIFE Mrs. Alfred Tranchemontagne, St. Michel des Saints, Que., writes:- "Baby's. Own Tablets are' an excellent medicine. They savecl my baby's life and I can highly recommend them to all: mothers." Mrs. Tranchemontagne's experience is" that of thousands of other: mothers who have tested the worth of Baby'sl Own Tablets.: The Tablets area stir° and safe medicine for little ones and* fiever.,fail to regu- late the bowels and stomach, thus. re it r m which. Ileving all the minor is , f a children suffer. They are sold by dealers or by snail at 25 medicine cents a ,box from. The Dr. Williams'. Medicine `Go., `Brockville, Ont. The Lilac. There is a dryad in the lilac` tree, n ofjoyand 1 thing bright andlove A g y grace, Venn owrr d arem orniaeltrizona dowNewi4esko o ..nrowl Ast for desr ipti've folders-- Biel-any, olders'- Biettdry, Caen. Agent, ilanta Pe Ity. 404 Freo Preou 'Bleat,,, Detroit, !Ileal, Phone; 1)rc,ln 6847 Beckoning ever with .arch coquetry, Lo! I:hra,ve seen her face, No woodland sprite as she, brown "limbed aiid sh Y ' ' (Pan's Iight o' love),. but, gay and. sweet and 'quaint Like some fair lady of a da3r gone by, Half siren and 'half saint ` Of rich brocaded lilac silk her gown, Emeralds and amethysts `adorn her throat, Diamonds and 'pearls of rain her. beauty crown - Perfumes around her float, a'+ Green are her petticoats and -lavender The plunges that all about her nod and sway Milton and Shakespeare loved to sing of her— And Herrick—she is May'" Minna Irving. Send a Dominion Expreos Money Or- der. They are payable everywhere. Not So ,Near the Heart. ' A young oother catching h r hus- band in mute contemplation before the cradle of her first-born, was thinking what a beautiful sight it was when he suddenly turned round ,and exclaimed in a gruff voice:` , "My dear, the more I look at it the more I am at a loss to understand how the furniture deafer 'could have . the impudence to charge you twenty-five dollars for this horrible .cradle.!" Pain.. 6 to brise you the fill richness sweetness of s and mellow CCOv• of tured ....Man ac by RI L QBACCO CO. OF CANADA LIMITED IMAh A 7 EASY TRICKS With; Three Dice Going, Going, Gone. j An ancient car chugged painfully up to the gate of the county fair races. The gatekeeper, demanding' the usual fee for automobiles, called: " "A dollar for the car!" The owner looked up with a pathetic smile of relief and said: "Sold:„ Civilization is the result of taking pains. Individual advancement .de- pends upon the same' fact. ClassifiedAdvertisements D URBI, BEAUTIFULLY FLUFFY, 1, 2- carded wool; sample, enough dight comforter; 'one 'dollar. Woollen MIUz, 1. Georgetown, Ont. Many of the best tricks are per- formed by utilizing • facts about , Use which few people are informed. An. effective little trick with dice owes its mystery to the fact that very few persons, even those who are familiar with dice, :really know how the spots are"arranged. As erson to throw three diceM1 Ask while: you stand with your back to the table.. : Ask; him' to add the number of spots.thrown—the total of the spots on the upper ;faces of the three dice. Then ask him 'to turn each die upside down and add h f the spots on the to the total otop p of the dice, the total of the spots -which are underneath. Ask him to concentrate on the number, , After an appearance of ;,concentration yourself, tell him 21. You will be the total is that right. g (Clip this out and paste it, with other_of the series, in a,serapbook.) He receives more favors who knows , e how to return them. "BayerSay A .. s irin INSIST! Unless you see the s`Ba er Cross" on tablets you Y I1 1nG' - getting genuine u are„lnot �e BaYer Aspirin proved safe by millions anddprescribed bY phy- sicians for 24 years. Accept only a Bayer package which contains proven 'directions Handy "Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists Aspirin Is the trade nark (registered in Canada) of Bayer Mantiractura or Idono- aceticacidostcr Or, Salicyricact1' • ACOA Minard's eases the stiffness, re- lieves the pain. Keep a bottle handy. Doesn't hart one hitt Drop :a little" 'Freozono on as aching corn, in•' stantly that cornstops hurting, then shortly 3:ou lift it right tiff with lingers, ers, Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of "Freezone" for a few cents, sufficient to remove every bard corn, soft corn; ar cor between the toes, and the foot callusee, without adreiieus or irritation. Nrvous-Peope That haggard, care -worn, depressed look will disappear and nervous, thin. i. t and people will gain in •we gal ( is i ro-P110s grate len Bt strength wheal P taken` for a short time, Price Si per la'kge'at your clr:uggiat. -(grow' Chemical EYES NIPRELYT .TEn BY UST -'"CINDERS mcommme.e,b;SOLO sy naueoists• 4- OPTICIANS watts LOA MIK :EYs-ta c DOCK v lna o, cat ,00AI 4. lFa Soap and iptmePromote mote Hair qealth Shampoo regularly with CuticuraSoap keep your and , scalp _clean and healthy, Before sham- pooitig touch spots of dan- diuffanditch ing, if any, with 'Cuticura Ointment. Sample Each Free by Mari. Address Canadian — 2 Ze Montreal.' a D 5. Orn P. 0. no. 6 Price. . Soaaz.2'oc. Ointment2.5 and 50c. Talcum 25c. Try our new Shaving Stick. WEAKi. PUN DO NI � I: IND 's t hle;�®5ai Lydia E<PE�l�lsa3n � Vege-�. pound Brought Relief When Other' Medicines Failed Port Mann, B. 0.-"I took Lydia B. Pinkham'sVegetable Compoundbecause 1 was tired and run -1 „„ clown. I had head 3' a'r11 aches and no ap pe- titeandwastrotibl d, for two years with sleeplessness. I tried medicines but; s<alas , many , 4 ( nothing did me any real good. While X was living in Wash- ington I was recom- mendedbyastranger to take Lydia E. ✓ '" � Pinkham's Vegeta- ble Compound. I =stronger and feel f'ne since then and am able to do toy, housework. I am willing for you to Wise these facts as a testimonial."—Mrs. J. 0; GPBAVIaS, Port Mann, B. C. Feels New Life and Strength Keene;N.:II. — "1 was weak and run- down and had backache and all sorts oil troubles which wotnen have.I found rent relief when taking Lydia E. Pink - ham's Vegetable Comppound, and I also used Lydian E. r�inkiiair s Sanative Wash. I am able to do m' - ork and feel newlife and strength fronitiie Vegeta- am inn all I can to • � ole Compound I da advertise it." Mrs. A..I .1-IAMMONb,'f te 72 Carpenter'. Street,, Keetie, , ISickslid w Jnln1 eVO wre o in the 'Dominion should try Lydia,- .�. Pinkhatn'c Vegetable Compounds IR' cal' Co., 25 Front St. Bast; soro:nto, Outs ISSaeE Ivt� ti