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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-5-15, Page 2, Here's a study in black and white of two budding young citizens taken , In a Inniber camp in the Mississ,auga forest reserve, -north of Blind River, , , Ontario. The little Indian and his white companion prepare for a day in , theswoods. " 1.tamssammawaawl,•• .ommaamswemommenoc.....misvonaaroomos • ,Writer can get nat`tuy valuable suggess '0,0fie frot page-qnts.'Writteri. for other .00tninunities. ' As soon as fife" pageant has, beea written or adapted the working out begins. The leaders of the episodes are chosen by the Cast Committee from many groups so' that there is .a democratic representation of the &im- munity. ' • Any number of'PersOn's' an be usecl. in a pageant, extraa, being :used as a background for thoSe taking part in the action. Too large groups are un- wieldy, 'yet, it is desirable to have a few persons in each episode, "so that the places of players avhci' may drop •How to Have a Co4tmunity Pageant wear ill-fitting trousers of gray or tonee. In a pioneer episode the men out from illness' or other causes at the last moment may be ' filled by those who, are fpuiliar with the action. Costumes Are Important, In, costuming the pageant alinest the whole community can take part. Or- iginal costumes of historical periods can be found in •some of the attics of the neighborhood. The older people will enjoy giving descriptions of the costnmes worn in their youth. The style of„ colohial dress is 'well knoWn. An effective ball -room scene can be copied from pictures of the period, in old rose, blue and creamy - yellow sateen and gaily- flowered ere - By Mary Meek Atkeson A community pageant is nothing but a big series of living pictures or pantomines in which the local people act out their ideas of local history or traditions just as the kindergarten. child acts out fairy- tales—and in both cases the attempt at expression is a great deal of fun. We are all children In our delight in dressing up and play- ing a part and the community pageant gives just the right opportunity for this sort of -enjoyment which is also educative. Any community --your eoramunity— is the place for pageantry. But if there were a choice, theu the snaall town, just beginning to feel that it will some -day be a city, is the ideal situation. Nothing can equal the en- thusiasm with which the people in such a town ferret out the details of • their history and represent the most striking incidents.- They suddenly realize that they are a part of the great world, and that down their main street all the currents of national his- • tory have flowed, and will continue to • flow for all time to come. They are lifted out of the humdrum of their • daily lives in seeing, themselves in their- relation to great histarical events, and this exaltation of spirit has made many a small-town pageant significant and beautiful quite out of proportion to its size and its'cost. A Home -Grown Production. -Perlia.D1 the liestAhing about a pag- eant is that it can he infinitely adapt- ed to local conditione. It can use al- most any kind of material effectivelY and it can be performed in the par- ticular beauty s,pot which is the pride af the town. If the local dealers are timid about undertaking the pag- eant without assistance they can em- ploy a trained. pageant -manager to as- sures general direction. Of course this greatly simplifies the project. But anyone with ability for managing peo- ple and some aetistio knowledge, who can give time and energy can produce a 'fieirly successful performance. And the town will have an additional rea- son for pride in that the entire produc- tion has been made at home. . Sometimes a'girl just out of college and eager to do something for her home town, is the local pageant -man- ager. She has seen pageants present- ed at college and she studies the gen- eral principles of pageantry from nooks and magazine articles: Another excellent way to obtain a knowledge of pageantry, ,and at the same time to arouse the interest of everybody is to arrange for some ex - pert in pageantry to eve a lecture, perhaps under the auspices of 'the wo- men's clubs pf the town. As soon as it has been decided to give a pageant, a meeting is called of all individuals who will probably be interested and helpful, and the general plan of organization worked out. The selection of the pageant man- ager is of first importance, since he as- surnee control '''of the entire organize- ton and has the final voice on all plane. Four Committees. Chairmen then are elected for the four general committees—the Histori- cal Committee; the Finance Commit- tee, the Cast Committee and the Pro- duction Committee. The pageant - manager and these committee chair- men constitute an executive body to work out and bring to success all the larger problemof the 'undertaking. The Historical Committee has the task of ferreting out the local history, deciding upon the number and char- acter of incidents to be presented, writing or adapting the pageant book, borrowing and caring for historical "properties, preparing the program and sometimes attending to the publicity for the pageant. The Finance Committee has charge of all business arrangements, inclind- ing the guaranty fund, budgeting of expenses, sale of tickets and programs renting of grounds or hall, seating, transportation, building of back- grounds and so forth. Under this cone- inittee may serve any number of sub- committees, each assigned one or more particular tasks. The Cast Committee tries to Inter- est el the people of the town in the project and sees that every person is asked to help in some way. It also appoints the leaders of the episodes, as the separate incidents of history are called, aasists the episode leaders in choosing members of the cast'and calls the general rehearsals. The production Committee, assisted by important sub-comanittees on cos tumes, int1Sie and dancing, and by the leaders of the episodes, has charge of all the details of the actual presenta- tion. Choosing the Subject. The pegeant-manager is, of course, an ex -officio member of all committees ae he -has the task of making the pro- duction a harmonious -whole. This is a very- simple fosin of organization but it covers all the necessary activi- ties for the smaller pageant and can be elaborated indefinitely to take care of the great numbers of people in the larger connnunity. The pageantenan- ag-er's aim should be to divide the re- sponsibility among -as many persons as possible so that practically every- one in the community feels himself a necessary and important part of the production. The choice of material for the pag- eant is very important. Most popular in ithe smaller communities is the his- torical pageant. made up of significant items of local history presented in a. series of pictures ar Pantomimes, these being reviewed and interpreted by the Spirit of the Community, Cana- da, or some ether symbolic figure. Even though -the wording of the story be -crude, if the real spirit of the lo- cality is expressed and the historical ncidents are well presented, the gen- eral effect is excellent. The pageant - - thena rty- of. over 100 hoYs and, girls, ranging from ten to, seventeen years from Dr, Barnardo's Ilemes, have left England for Canadt , Some of x -t' shcaMis waving good-bye to 'London., , homespun, held by galluses of the ma- terial over shirtsof bright. color. The pioneer women wear tight -waisted, full -skirted dreseea of dark calors with - bright aprons—or bright calico dress- es tor best wear. Indian's wear suits of brown canton -flannel, fringed, to simulate buckskin, decorations of bright colors and headdresses of feathers. Their faces and hands are copper color with blue and yellow war paint. Costumes for heralds and pages' vary greatly. The medieval ,costume, consisting of a loose jacket or tabard, long stockings, low shoes, and a soft cap, can be used -with any kind of pag- eant. Adverting for the pageant can best bessione with bright, artistic post- ers, large enough to attract attention. It will arouse interest to announce prizes for the pest posters made by -school children. Newspaper advertis- ing slsoold- take the form of little stories abourthe pageant. Each epi- sode can be- written up -separately, giving the cast and something about the incident to be portrayed. She—"I could scratch my eyes out for saying my mother is a cat." Hubby—"Well, that proves you in- he-rit her disposition." Luxor to Wembley. A remarkable reprodnetion of Tut- ankhamen's tomb at LuXor has been eonst1-uctedhyeyerts. for display a the ' Britieh Empire Exhibition at -Wembley. ' Wonderful chairs of ivory and ebony, fearsome elongated lions and cows, golden.. chariots, chests armed black slaves'—all have been faithfully copied. Th, "tomb" will have three Chem - leers, each the exact size of the origin- al. In an ante -room will be the golden couches, the chests, and,. the chariot wheels just as they were found in the Luxor tomb; and at the entrance will be the two black guardians of the inn- er shrine. One of the moat remarkable objects in the "tomb" is the King's "tailor's dummy.", Tie -save himself the trouble of being measured and fitted for his clothes, Tutankhamen had a repro- duction of himself made from his exact measurements, on which his clothiers fitted all his new clothes. This idunmaywnhae been reproduced even to the pin-holes made by the fit- ters. , C What We Owe to China. China praduced, discoveries and in- Ventions of the greatest value to the human race lo -ng before the rise of Western civilization, The Chinese invented the compass in 1122 B.C.; paper in the early part of the first century; printing about the year A,13. 932; glass in the early part of the second century; the seis- mograph in the first century, and an- ticipated modern medicine. Metal coins were in circulation in. China iti 2852 BO. The manufacture by the ancient Chinese of gongs and tonntorne, with their 'Perfect' tones, still remains a mystery to us, although their chemical oomposition has been determined, Elevation is to merit what dress -is to a handsome person. "Education that stresses inherent good qnstlitieS in every child is more interesting to me than the culture of t plants. Entirely without biological comparison, the child es well as the plant has desirable tendencies and qualities—these ol the child to be 11,14 - tared into an active appreciation of good," -Luther Burbank, •I I! Learn Them, )(Young Folks, and I -A or By'llichard. Bond. Thirty years ago I 'Was the klud.of a "bare -feet ,boy" the poets like to idolize" ----a real farmer's boy; tanned, husky, 'active, ready for anything ex- ceftt wailt, and dreaming 'of the tiine when I could see big cities and all that went with them. To -day, no matter what the poets insist my feelings should be, the principal -reason I seek every possible chance to leave the city and get back to the soil is that I may indulge In some of the things I never indulged, in when a hay. Now, after thirty years of city life, with' a boy of my, own who demands a hike or a camping trip every Saturday from Mareh to November, I am begin- ning to realize the things I might have done when a boy ---had Iknown What OONV know. With woods and stream' and 'fields and Vegetables, road gams'and ,fruit 11 around me for year after year, I Sel- dom if ever ate a meal, worthy of be- ing called a meal, on Naturd's table— „the beautiful, wonderful, natural 'ground. Of course we had picnics! Sunday School picnics,' and family reunions and public, school picnics and com- munity picnic's and harvest picnics and all the other picnics that farm folk enjoy, but the food we ate an thoese picnics was the vern food that” the city folks -usually eat when they too decide to'go' out into the wilder- ness' for a meal: Potato salad, beets, pickles,. cheese, sandwiches, fruit= and all the rest of the usual picnic fodde'r that we claim "tastes so good" all because we have had a delightful time in the gleat outdoors and are'so hungry thatplain bread and butter is a genuine treat. Several Kinds of Fires. My boY, a 'city boy, has taught his father, a farm boy, just what kind of meals may be had in the woods or on the banks of a stream—the best meals in the world. We scorn prepared fooda as, we start for the country now. We much prefer the "makings," aefew utensils and the anticipation -of the huge delight be- fore us! ' In -the depths of scene grove or on the bank of a friendly stream, son and pitch our camp and prepare our, meal. "Usually we are not alone, for every scout in our troop who is able to get off an -that particular day sees lo it that hens with us. New there are several kinds of fires. There is the Indian fire, .the,hunter's fire, the trench firek the boy -built oven, "the Connell' fire all kinds of ,fires'—: 'efich of ,which ,bas its", uses', 'convent- onces, disadvantages and joys, Tha tatehelf fire id one of the most suitable of cooking. fires. Take along. a. short liandlocin spade, Or, if the ground Is soft, you can soon dig your trench' with a stick of woOd. , The trench is 'a little -one. Nine hiches deep is ample. Forty inches long and about fifteen inches wide. Over the trench, lengthwise, I may my cooking iron, laut were I a boy again, I .should 'probably use two long green eaplings. , Chief CookIng.Utensii.e, . My cooking iron, Which takes the place Of stoVe, oven tind, all, 'is noth- ing but an eight -or -nine -foot piece of half-inch iron rocl, bent until the encl's are about six inched-aPart/ehtl-avelded In. -that Position fo make, it stab"e....,,,' 'Up near the ,narrow end ,my o.ciffee pot simmers. Further downtmy fry- ing -pan holds sway. Where the rods are far apart, my big potof hunter's' stew or my • pail of ,pcitatoeff, The rod is light,,to carry 'and plenty large enough to cook an excellent •meal for eight or ten campers., , Take a couple Of .good. rbasting apz, pies 'back to the woods with •You the. next, time you go.-.„-Writtr them: care- fully in, some large aromatic leaves and then encase the w.hele in .about half or three-quarters s inch of Plain - everyday clay or lima. 'Biiry them in the ashes of your fire and cover theaan with glowing coals. Let them stane there half eel hour while„you are mak- ing a hunter's stew or. baking tneiet. You'll find the best 'dessert -yet 'ever tested, bubbling and sizzling within those leaves---scleen, delicious, baked tins: turn;• " Making Hunter's Stew. The hunters stew I have mentioned is known by every boy scout in thes country. It is the first "big dish" he learns to cook. As he grows more ex- perienced he is able to impreve `on the stew mentioned in his handbaok or. book of rules. • . To my mind, the ideal hunter's stew Is made as follows: Take along a handful or two of rice; some good beef, a few potatoes; a -car- rot, two onions, a 'little salt, if you wish, an ear or two of corn. The ker- nels you can -curt off when making the stew. - Cut the beef in tiny cubes and put in the kettle of boiling"watet, together' t &di! "V1) t'lt ',the -rice., Let' diem bell tor an hone and then add the other ingra: dient--everything beng.,cht in little, cubes:ear disks. Boll the whole for an- other hour and 'a half and then eut t,9:your crowd. You'll have a stew, spot' id every stornach. ,When the days begin to get cold, the hunter's stew is just the best! It, warms ,you up even better than cocoa. Good oldsfashiondil flannel. Cakes coin° in handy here too: You may find a dozen' recipe's fdr flanel „cakes and fail to 'make good with every one Of'them, but try this some 'time when you °are'camPing in the open and -see if, your 'cakes are not just as 'good as those Mother makes: ' Take along' a cup and a half of sift- ed flour; ,two eggs; a small bottle of milli; a little baking poWder; a table- . sPoonfill, of brown sugar; 'maple sugar, or molasses; 'a little salt—half a tea- spoonful -Will do; and some Inrcl for greasing purpoSee'. You svill'aleo need a .griddle, frying pan or some thick bottomed pan, unless ,yeu have -ad- vanced. far enough to use that ideal, griddle—the flat, thin, Cooking 'stone, . The 'kettle • in which you have brought your flew* and other supplies will slo for a" Mixer. A' little praetice is necessary before your Mixing will be ;satisfactory. ,You will have; to learn_ hew flour and milk may be combined With eoarse valued sugar and eggs'ele 'that :there will. not 'be, a nump or 'a 'string or anything else .to mar the creamy.masSe You Will have, to learn- atfand-just how much baking poWder to use so that the mass on griddle batter yiul bubble' and raise' deligh.tfulik' add Yet 'not -beceme sce thick that the cakes will burn pesethe top` and bottom (what was the top once is et course the bot- tom later with a griddle cake) while the middle is yet uncooked. But these things come Nfith eXPerleitice. De try thisinfelks! A country: boy who who" didifs'cit have an' opportunity to try it until he was a city man, passes' this Words, back .to ,all those wno are interestedne firid thOse' meals the 'open well worth having: Yount find them so much, better than 'the food youget, at' the .ennual plenie, that you will appreciate why I fall.eo, enthuse now' ener sandwiches'and-petato The ' More 'advanced you becom:e, in the lore of the great outdoors, the more, enthusiastic you will be,, over- camp cooking and, if you ever become a'city man, like me, the more anxious you will be to get back as often as possible o your kabob andqninter's' st-ew. The Flight. • We aretwoseagles Under the heavens, Over the mountains, Stretched on the -wind. Sunlight heartens ,us, Blind snow baffles us, s -Ravelled and thinned. We are like eagles; But when Death harries uss Human and hunanled When one of us, goes. Let the otheri follow— Let the flight -be ended, Let the fire blacken, Let the book close. The Ship's"Band. An old naval officer was describing his experiences and comparing the present condition of' music on the ships with that of his active days. "Now -a -days," he said:, ."you have a band provided, and it's a band of Eng- lishmen and everyone of them a naval man. When first 'Vas promoted Cap- tain, however, things were -different. My commander fancied himeelf as a Musical man, and he would write to London and ask for one trombone, or whatever it was 'he- wanted, and he might get it or he might not, and the men who played were as often as not foreigners who did not know how to play together. I had to insist on their playing 'God Save the Queen' each morning and night, a tiling a lot of them didn't lilse and s 'em couldn't do. But now -a -days there are no bands in the'world to touch ours." Which is quite true.- , Historic Ring. Every electric light hi the world, froni the small pocket lamp to huge advertising signs, owes its existence to a little ring About SiX inches in diameter, This rings which is in the Royal Institution Museum in London, la that from which Faraday, the great inventor, oPtainen, the first induction spark, thus making- a discovery which is the basis of our modern electric lighting system. Human Hair Rope, In .some Japanese temples may be seen suspended , great coils of rope woven from human hair. Such ropes, made of hair sacrificed by thousands of women and girls, were used to hoist stone and timlier 'for the teasiple, and are preLerv_....ed_s_re*lic,s. „ True to Form. "Thores been quite a rumpus in the school yard. 'What's it all about?" asked the principal, , "Why," explained "Harold, "the, dee- er has just been around exanlining us, and 011e Of' 010 deficient boys is knocking.tho stuffing out or a perfect Void of purity in morals, .faith is >ut a hypocrite of words. Documents in Tut's' Tomb Verify -History, Dr. James H. Briasted, head of. the Oriental Languages,Department of the University of Chicago, has returned from a four months', stay in Egypt, where he has been deciphering manu- scripts found in the toin.b of Tutank- hamen, which, by the way, is now spelled by those who know, Dr. Breast- ed included, "Tuttankhamon." In the tomb are manuscripts that will. find out and amplify' all the history of Egypt known, he says, and will also throw a light on ancient Grecian his- tory. For example, there have. been found documents in the tomb to show the seriousness of, Tuta.nkhamon's revolu- tionary belief in freedom, of thought, and individuality had en the politics of 'his' times They shipplement the vague 4nformation regarding the Iran - 110 efforts Of , lais gian'vv-idow to sa.ye- her throne by an alliance vsitli Prince of the Hittites in Asia -Minor. It is in this ancient correspondence that Dr. ° Breasted has eliscovesed documents supplementing recent dis- coveries in •Asia:',1111:aor, showing that there was a Trojan, Wareand that I -len oen, the -lady for- whose sake ships were sunk and nettles raged, Via& a real women, and not the figment of the 'imegioation of a roving Greek mins- trel. ' "Tile tomb of Tut," Ise declared, "is a treasure house o1 ancient art. It , , survived from a'revolution which was the first period of spiritual emancipa- tion in human history. 1-inirse GotSmoked There. "Just back from astrip, eh? Why' do you wear smoked glassesn", f "I don't—just in from Pittsburgh, One/ A MESSAGE ON TH FORESTS $ The present situation in 'Canada generally, with respect to the wastage ofouirs atie fo,riensatz:erotisotr:lo:(smte) tlif('ontlegell;n,f63;r1siet firep losses in the past few years haVe been appalling, Statistics compiled for the British Blinpire Forestry Conference last summer show that on the average 5,779 fires occur ea.ch year. These 'tree burn over 720,000 acres of mer- chantable timber and 1,320,000 acres of young growth. The annual timber loss is estimated at nearlY 4,000 million board ft. Tle nionetary loss, figuring stioupage value of timber only and P7e,rP1134',50,o (10aono-iti.ge, etc., amounts to 0 This sum, while large enough of it- self, does not represent the,full econo- mic loss. In our forest industries, more than in,any other, the cost'of the manufahtfred. product is made up of lab -or charges The destruction of pre- sent and future stumpage results, therefore,. in direet loss of- the means of 'livelihbod"Cif da importarit part of - our population, It is further a -menace' to the permanency of the forest indus- triee themselves which to -day produce ifire hundred million dollars arinualiy in wealth and are second only toi agri- , culture in importance. A world shortage of softwood tim- ' bers loonin onnise horizon, Ourgpros- -parity and our national safety- alike demand careful use and preservation , of the forest resources. The lavishness of nature has been mare than matched by the prcifilgality of man. Our forest fires have de,stroyed znore thnber each year than is converted into, lumber, and this deepite the fact that oiler ninety per cent. of all fores,t fires are ideiertectly attributable to human neg. These' facts speak for themselves. We have been doing these things' which we ought not to have done, and We nave been leaving undone these things which we ought to have done. The remedy is within our reach. If ninety iper cent. of "'Canada's forest fires 'are' caused by human neglect, then -ninety per pent, can be prevent- ed, by human care and precaution. Every settler, every logger, every shunter,' every °camper ; every railway employee, every -true citizen of Cana- da =1st do his part. -The individual care.regnired is so slight, and the gen- eral, carelessnees so appa.11iiag in its results, 'Canada has lost in direct values alone $73,000,000 in the last five years through forest tires. Let us all resolve to reduce this loss during the n,ext five years by ninety per cent. —Charles Stewart, Minister of 'the In- terior. Explosions Caused by Flour. • It is notgenerally -known that flour, sugar, starch, or grain dusts are oft,working greater havoc than a high explosive such as dynamite. In a barrel or sack .flour is harm- less. But if you were to take hand- fule"of it and threw it about Until the air in the room was full of it, and then „ light a .raatch, the house might be - blown to pieces. Flour is a combustible substance. . When a cloud of 'it floats in the air of .a room every p.article IS in. immediate, 'contact with oxygen, and 'aeflame ,or e even a spark will cause it to burn. In- st,antaneously the whole of it is con- verted into gas, which, expandingiin a elosed area, blows Out the wails. Powdered sugar is also- eXtremely dangerous; while. powdered spices, oat- meal, and even soap will explode' Some months ago a workman lifted the.lid of a bio 'containing 'flour, and held a.lighted match inside to see how full it was. • An explosion took place, immediately, and the unfortunate man was badly injured. Yet it'was not the MRS'S', Of •tlfo flour that went off, but on.ly what was afloat' ia the air of the bin. • - A cake of eoep, does not bur"si unlees put into a furnace or coal range, but if dry, and distributed in in powdered form -through the air of a room it will explode with violence. The requisite conditions'in such cases are that the substance shall be coinleistible' and that it shall'Ve plentifully mixed with air in a confined space. The fact that eoal dust will explode has only been realized within the last few years. A tremendous explosion in Prance, in which one thousand lives were lost, was proved to be dile to this cause. Means of sa.fegtiard against all sorts 02dustaerixdPineisaineflys faactt:oorienowu-sebesittlicg. ' tion 'fans to remove particles 'of dust from the air. Persistency; • Ross --"Aren't you the boy who was 'here' a, week ago looking for a post- - tion?" Boy—"Yes, air," " • . . Boss --"I thought so. And 'didn't I tell, you then. that I wanted an Older boy?" -• . ,Yes, sir; that,s, why I'm Ilene° again... I'm older now. • Says Farmer Fumislegafe.. 'The radio Spreadenwine the news; •:And- it mighty flnes But 'still ter gesalp I prefer. The good old 'pests?: line, ' _ 0' • Air 'raids, on ,Great" Britain during tho.1VA:i7 reenited in 1,413 -deaths 'arid 3,407 injured. • If •((:::io eliNtAtAN ‘4•401 ouTti( • MNIZLES 11.1EN Nov). WOOCt) sie KNoio eies -W(FIVAC.t, 3dr Avenging a Telegram., On arriving in Manchester, .0 who was fond of playing practical jokes Pont 'a telegraxn to a friend in London that read: ,"I ern perfectly well." Tho charges wara Tho information nmst have been gratifying, fax about a woels later the jolter received an express package cn which he was obliged to pay licaTY charges. Opezting it, he found a largo;i'.._- street paying bloelt upon which 'e - pasted the following niessago: "This is the weight your telegrrna lifted from my heart," " Glass Models of Sea Life. Herman, Milrer nialtos lifelikeglass nitalois of strange undersea an. nials for tko 0A:inerican MuSettal of Natural IItzfofy in NsW York, Tile boy Who is on the job every minute is the .hey who will succeed Whether bn ,14,1a01 Or at -';#"Ork.