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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1920-12-16, Page 3- Saturday. Yes, youugt,ters, half n hnitdny--I mind the maples Blazed I.iko flames against tho smoky sky; the goldenrod ;von brown, Acrosa t stretch of sealing hills the levy cattle grazed! And all the Itttln neighborhood was an an may to toren. \Ve cIonl.e .l avror's the crisping fields, tired hay by tired gray -- Tho hoose was primped for company from roof to shining floor; blowing White, slarclhy clntuinws ul , K lie , fresh imng for Sabbath ])ay, And iipleY elect Sgte11.4 silent from out the kitchen flour, Fresh F:niments lay- upon the bed in our 14-0 lofty 11413111, We :.:::urtt the cloudy looicing-i;lass with conscious boyish pride To wield our IleW and shining blades, and feared a bloody doom Aa, wavering on cheek and chin, we felt their keenness slide. Yea, youngsters, half n h011day ..1138 maple road at last • And other wheels to race our owu, a happy -hearted way -- Fur some good genie atolo an hour wilc11 all the rest were past And consecrated it to yc.uth and calker it Saturday. Interesting Facts Regarding Fox OX I<aISiI'1g. Some inteiw'ting facts ruga ding fox farming are forthcoming from the Veterinary Director Gent:tal, Dr. Torrance, In an article in 'i'he .Agri- cultural Gazette of Canada for No- vember he tells us that the main difficulty connected with the raising o1' foxes in captivity is the protect- ing of them from disease. It is no- ticeable that the female instead of giving birth? to a litter of .four or five at n time, as she doers when free, rarely produces more than two, the average fur the .trues in Prince Ed- ward Island beim; at the rate of one and a halt. Individual fox ranchers, however, by care and improved methods do succeed in ;(curing an increiue ai' tln'ee or even four per pair. With a view to making this success mere general, under the direction of Dr. Torrance, research cork has been undertaken. Land and equipment have been acquired, two scientific experts from th.e 110x1111 of A.nimals Dran+ employed, six pairs of foxes from the Island ranches fur- nishcd, and a small laboratory fitted up for the studying of the diseases and parasites that affect the animals. She Took the Next 'Frain. Short cuts, if the road is too steep, may not pi ON 1411011; and places that are near together may not bo readily readied from n .e another, Those fas• chiming impossible directions, fam- iliar to our childish years, sometimes find an inconvenient echo in present Met: "Straight down the crooked lane, and all around the square." Certainly they frequently come to the mind of a distracted shopper in a great de- partment store, "I want some shoestrings, some hairpins, a pair of gloves and a tooth- brush," the woman said. "I have to catch n train, and have but a few min- utes." "Yes, madam!" the floorwalker re- plied briskly. "That's the beauty of a department store—get anything you want, right under the one roof! Take elevator to eleventh floor, shoe depart- ment, eight aisles to the right from main passageway, for shoo strings; hairpins In notions department, east side of basement, three aisles beyond hardware; gloves in women's wear, fifth floor of annex; reached by pea- sageway over street; toothbrush in drugs and toilet artc;es department on balcony, reached by moving stair• way, which you will Olid on your right as you pass the fountain in the florist shop in the centre of the mitt floor." Electricity in the Bathroom. Speaking of deathsin bathtubs to• which electrical appliances wore at- tached, the British Medical Journal says: No ono with the meet elementary knowledge of the danger of an electric current would immerse 1lmeelf fa the ordinary household bath and then pro- ceed to administer treatment from any piece of apparatus connected with the ordinary lighting circuit; nor, indeed, would he allow anyone else to ad. minister such treatment, It is prac- tically useless to attempt to insulate an ordinary bath, fltted with metal water pipes and a waste pipe, and a p0reon immersed lu a bath becomes an excellent conductor for electricity. In a properly fitted bathroom the switches, lights and wires should be so arranged that it le impossible for anyone, while in the bath to touch any. ons of thein with any part of his body. Ftlrthormore, all these fittings should be at a distance from the pipes, and care should be taken that no defect Is Possible, and that the insulation is perfect. He Wanted 'a Full Trip. The foreman had rebuked Cassidy for not taking a full load of bricks up the ladder every trip, and Oaseidy had unionised not to offend agale, Ono morning the supply of brloke ran out, and Cassidy, after gathering every ono in slgllt, found he was still short the proper number, He called to a workman on the elft1 door, "What do you want?" asked the lean. "Throw rue down ono brick," shout. ed Cassidy at the top of hie voice, "to make good me loadt" A PARTY FROCK 1 ,wv..vv-r ,,,r.n 07'13 1"•m�.rnklrq 4- n3e1Kn tic. it No. 97.43 --Dress. Price, 35 cents. Sizes 16 to 20. Transfer Design --No. 969. Price, 25 cents. This pattern may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from tho MIOlIl1 Co., 70 Bond Street, Toronto, Dept. W. CHILDHOOD CQ St111PATION Constipation.. that disordered state of rho digestive tract which is nearly always caused by improper feeding— can be readily regulated by the use of I3aby's Own Tablets: These Tablets lino a mild but thoroughly laxative. They are easy to take and aro abso- lutely free from injurious drugs. Con - meting then Mrs. Joseph Dion, Ste. 1'orpetue, Que., writes:—"I have no. thing but praise for Baby's Own Tab - lots. anon -my baby was three months old he w'as terribly constipated but elle Tablets soon. set !him right and now at the age of fifteen menthe he 19 a big healthy boy and this good health I attribute entirely to the use of the Tablets." They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr, Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Out, The island of Lundy, off the Bristol Channel, was for many years in the occupation of a man named Heaven, and the place was referred to by sailors as the "Kingdom of Heaven." MONEY ORDERS. Send a' Dominion Express Money Order. Five Dollars costs three cents. "Burke's Peerage," one of England's best known annual handbooks, was first published in 1826. ttlnerd's Liniment Relieves Distemper AUTO SPARE PARTS for most makes and models of carp. Your old, broken or worn-out parts replaced. Write or wire us deecrib. lug what you want. We carry the largest of dslightly usst ed lorcnstook w parts and automobile equipment. W6 ship (140,D, • ,tny'where In Cantina. Satis- factory or refund In full our motto. S;itaw's Auto Salvage Part Supply, 923.931 baifer4a St., Toroato, Qat. Eastern Canada was changed, and the flacon industry as we know it to -day came into being. Those who assisted in the transformation realized how great were the difficulties and how tremendous the possibilities. Time has proved to the satisfaction of Cana- dians that the exportable surplus of agricultural products must nlcet, iu so far as is possible, the stmelards laid down by the importing nations. Moreover, we have learned that it is profitable to meet Hives demands' wherever feasible. Canadian bacon is. in Great Britain, and even in others countries, a standard product. The Government's part now .is to keep; clear all trade channels, thus pre-' viding the demand, while the repute - tion already achieved assures the pro- ducer a price comparable to that re- ceived in any other market."—Dr. S. F. Tolmie, Minister of Agriculture. A Strange Conversion. Ilow a woman was converted to Christianity by a Brahmin is told by alecent writer. Cecelia Thaxter, a poetess, was an earnest student of strange and myeti- eal teachings. At o110 time she Was much dominated by the teachings of John Weiss, and elle diel not appreci- ate the beauty and power of the Bible. She saw a good deal of a Hindu theo- sophist. One day she said to her friend, Mary Perlman, "Did I speak contemptuous- ly of such a person? I ought not to, for ono of the principles of theosophy is to feel no contempt for al., human being." \fisc Parltman replied, "13ut did not Jesus teach that? Is it not all in the Sermon on the Mount?" By and by Mohlni himself happened to get hold of a copy of the New Testament, and was much surprised and impres.4ed by the beauty of its contents. Ile spoke of it to Airs. Thaxter, and found to leis amazement that she knew nothing about the New Testament. "What!" he said. "You do not read your own religious books? I never heard anything more beautiful than this." firs. Thaxter forthwith began to read the New Testament and because so much interested in it that she went about with a copy in her pocket; whenever she had n chance she would read it, From that time she began to attend Phillips Brooks's church. She was converted to Christianity by a Brahmin theos0phistl Making Markets. "To a very large degree, produc- tion is controlled by profits and the ease of marketing the products, but sometimes, es in the live stock indus- try, markets have to be created. Canada was producing the fat hog and for years had an outlet for the surplus produet; but marketing con- ditions changed and the industry im- mediately faced rather a difficult situation. A new market was the solution. The Government was imme- diately seized of the situation and had careful surveys and investigations' made; educational campaigns were, curried on, the type of hog raised in j Surnames and Their Origin IIOMER. Racial Origin—Anglo-Norman. Source—An occupation. Wlu:lo ell0 Normans spoke French they were really a Teutonic race. Indeed, a largo part of the blood of modern France, particularly in the north, was originally Teutonic, the re- sult of the great migrations westward of the Teutons into what had pre. viously been the purely Gallic prov- inces of the Roman Empire. Thus not only the overwhelming majority of names, but a large percentage of the words in the medieval French speech were Teutonic. One of these words was that for "helmet," a modern word which bus come clown to us both through the Anglo-Saxon and the Norman-French tongues, only for some reason we have perpetuated the diminutive rather than the original word itself, "Helmet" maims "little helm" As the Normans originally spelled and pl'ononnced it, it was "itealme," but in accordance with that tendency which has scatter- ed the diphthong "au" so profusely through modern French, namely, the tendency to drop the prolnuldatfon of. the "1" and substitute a long "o" sound for the fernier vowel, it was quite generally spelled "'Immo" be- fore fore the population of England finally swung back toward 1110 cid ,3ng10- Saxon speech. The "heauners" or "']loalmors" of medieval England were the halters of helmets. The name was, of course, first applied as descriptive of this oc- cupation, with this meaning helug ul- timately lost in that of mere personal designation. With the original mean- ing forgotten or nnstreseed the tend- ency toward phonetic spelling in an age when spelling was little standard. bled a.tyhmv, evontnally brought tale fancily name to the form of Denim CASEY. \ arialion—Cahasey, O'Casoy. Racial Origin—Irish. Source—A. given name. The Trish family name of Casey is one which, strangely enough in view of its Irish form, so complicated. to Our English -accustomed eyes, has de- veloped very few variations in its transition into English spoiling. This its true because, despite the complicated looks of the Gaelic spell- ing, the pronunciation is oat very .usceptible to any other phonetic rendition in English than Casey, or when care is taken to preserve the faint "11" sound in the middle of the name,. Cahasey. The Irish spelling is nothing less than "O'Catllasnigh," sometimes also spelled "O'Caheseidh." To out' Eng- lish -trained eyes the latter form illus- trates Hest •its pronunciation, when it is remembered net the sound of the final "411" easily became eliminated, and makes clear the rees011 for the spelling sometimes, ,hut not often met with Cabasey, Tho "11" in such a name is very easy to ignore except for at tongue trained in the Irish language. Tho given name from. which this Scattily or clan name was developed is "Catfla'sach,'a and its meaning is "brave." It was a name quite com- mon in the old I1nts11 nomenelaturc, but, of coarse, only in comparatively few instances gave rise to a family name. The O'Casoye in Ireland are most thickly settled in Munster, Limerick and Clare (tbe territory which was the ancient Thoinond), and 4(1110 in Cork." When tea ,qtr coffee b tilers why not turn to b. ` ST k has helped, maw a coffee drinker out o tivubl e . '/tl� 4A l `irermei s a Reason, Sold Tv- girocer GA^n t �'�1t '�'Rt'�.�'1q t THE TREASURE OF GOOD HEALTH Easily Maintained Through the Use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. There is not a nook or corner in Canada, in the cities, the towns, 11 villages, on the farms and in the alines and lumber camps, where Dr. We1-3 Hams' Pink Pills have not been used, and from one end of the country to the other they have brought hack to bread -winners, their wives and fam- ilies the splendid treasure of neW health and strength, You have only to ask your neigh- bors, and they can tell you of sante rheumatic or nerve -shattered man, some suffering Woman, ailing youth or amtemi1 girl who owes preterit health and strength to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. For 1110170 4113111 a quarter of a century these Pills have been known not only in Canada, but throughout all the world, as a reliable tonic, blood - making medicine. The wonderful :.access of Dr. Wil- liams' Pink fills is due to the fact that they go right to the root of the disease in the blood, and by making the vital fluid rich and red strengthen every organ and every nerve, thus driving out disease and pain, and making weak, despondent people bright, active and s'rong. Air. W. T. Johnson, one of the best known and must highly esteemed men in Lenen- burg county, N.S„ says:—"I am a Provincial Lands Surveyor, and am ex- posed for the greater part of the year to very hard work travelling through the forests by day and camping out by night, and I fled the only thing that will keep 111e rep to the mar's is Dr. Williams' Pint: Pills. When I leave home for a trip in the woods I am as interested in having my supply of pills as provisions, and on Snell occasions, I Luke them regularly. , The result is T ant always at. 1 never take cold, and. can digest all kinds of food such its we have to pht up with hastily cook- ed. iu 111e moods. Having proved the value of D1'. \Villiems' I'inik Pills, as a tonic and health builder, I am never without them, and I lose no opportun- ity iu recommending them to weak people whom I meet" Dr. Williams' Pink Pills should be Rept in every home, and their occa- sional use will keep the blood pure and ward oft. illness. You can get these pills through any meclieiee deal- er, or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for "$2.50 frons the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, One Perfect Hands, A prominent British artist says that in the perfect (hand of a Noncan the third, linger is longer than the first, or index linger, while in a man the iperfect proportions are a longer first finger then rile tbird. Minard'e Liniment Co., Limited. Gentlomon,--Last winter I received I great benefit from the use of MIN- AItD'S LINIMENT In a severe attack of LaGrippo, and I have frequently proved it to be very effective in eases I of Intlammntion, Yours, W. A. HUTCH INSON. Vegetables That Are Benefit- ed by Freezing. It is known by meet gardeners that cabbage, parsnips, turnips, salsify, and carrots are not injured by freez- ing, provided they thaw out while in contact: with the earth or soil, but it is also a fact that certain winter vegetables aro not at their best until they have been frozen Hard at least once while in the ground, Parsnips and salsify especially, should stand in the ground- until there has been weather cold enough to freeze several inches, then t110 roots may be dug and stored i11 nn open pit and covered with dirt. Tho covering may be sufficiently heavy to prevent further freezing if it le deeared to bo into them du1'nhg the wilier, but it will do no harm if cove:eel only a few inches so that they will freeze and thaw several times. They will be of better texture and fiav01' by having frozen, Turnips should not he ale lowed to freeze more than once, and cabbage also peeps best if covered well after the hernia have frozen once or twice mut thawed out tinder ground, The statllts should ll,o be 0010red with l •1"• afar frost •, in start � a 1 a t oil when 8 F , 4 come. 3104411 1110111 info tau: 110310 if they protrude and are allowed to :freeze, and thaw a1 mustier of liners, Quick relief froro RHEUMATIC pain ,U ME �p f ti� .0.. •. • 111(4 Ow:041.144 3'! t. BEWARE Of S.!PS;,Ii;rCwrfszatr:«c $1.6ee eutte. 731E LEEMINC two Nem, MDDTRE:`.L or hr. J l y n ,'. 1!