HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-1-13, Page 2Training Children to Obey,
One of the home problems that is
continually in the thoughts of mothers
is how to train children to obey, All
mothers --and fathers, too ---realize
how much cheerful obedience ors the
part of 'children saves a mother's
nerves and strength, and the ince of
mind of the whole household, How
trying it is for mothers day after day
to preach and plead end thy to get
their children to obey when first
spoken to,--endy to find that they are
Making no headway, or that metter.'s
go from bad to worse! Father comes
home to be greeted usually with,
"John die this," and "Mary did that,"
and there seems to be no hope in sight,
The need of every home in which.
there are children is cheerful and in-
r,tant obedience --not the cringing
obedience that springs from fear, but
that cheerful, willing ouodienee that
follows naturally from habit. On the.
Hem of adults habit hits a powerful
influence, but too often its possibilities
in the training of children are over -
1 k
verlook
Perhaps the experience of the wife
of a naval officer who had to confront
the problem of training her two chil-
dren, aged .six and four, without the
help of her husband will be useful to
our readers. She asked herself the
question, What makes men and women
work and fight and save and sacrifice
and pray? Her answer ryas, The hope.
of reward in some form, whether it be
riches nr power or life everlasting.
Then why net, ,he said to herself, ap-
ply the principle of .a hope of reward,
to training the clr,:dren in habits of
cherful nba,Kence? What should the
reward be? Pennie. for savings
stamps, an excursion to the beach, a
new cart or a bieyede, a doll, or any-
thing that seemed worthy.
She made nut a chart for each child„
slowing the days of the week and the
various thing in which they meat
often disobeyed:
Get up when called, and without
noise,
Wash and dren quiuJy end brush
the teeth.
Tidy up room.
Ent dinner quietly.
Come in when called.
General obedience.
Eat supper and brush the teeth.
Say prayers and go quietly to bed.
other ingredients. have the iron very
hot end grease it with plenty of lard;
do not use butter, Drop one I:able-
sloonfui of the batter into each sectlon
of the iron, cover the rakes and turn
them quickly. Do not mix the batter
ton thick.
Corn Pudding -1 run of cern (pre-
ferably golden bantam), yolk of two
eggs, 1 teaspoon salt, a pineh of cay-
enne pepper, 2 cups of rich milk, 1
tablespoon of butter, 1 green pepper.
Drain the corn, place it in a. baking
dish and beat the yolk of the eggs
lightly. Add to the corn, the milk, the
yolk, the butter, the salt and the nay-
ennep P a per, Then chop the green
pepper and add that, Bake the dish
M a hot oven until it is of the consist-
ency of custard and browned on the
top. This pudding is an excellent sub-
stitute for potatoes.
Johnny. Cake --2 cups of white corn
meal, milk, 1 teaspoon of mit, ee table-
: spoon of butter, water, lard. Boil the
water, then scald the corn meal with
it; the amount of water that the meal
takes np must determine how much
water to use. A little more -than one
cupful to an equal quantity of meal is
a fair average. Heat the milk and add
' it to the meal until you can drop the
batter easily from a spoon; then add
the butter and the salt. Drop spoon-
fuls of the batter on a hot, well -greas-
ed griddle and brown the cakes on both
sides. As you finish fryinlg each batch
of cakes, place them in a pan in the
oven and let them brown a little more.
They should be so thick that the sides
are crisp though the centres remain
soft.
Scalded Johnnycake -2 cups of corn
meal, tk tablespoon of butter, water,
1 teaspoon of salt, Boil the water and
scald the corn meal with it, allowing
one and ane -half cupfuls of water to
one cupful of meal, Add the salt and
the butter. Then spread the batter in
buttered pans and bake it in a hot oven
for half an hour. The johnnycake
varies according to the way in which
you spread it. When spread very thin,
it resembles wafers; when thick, corn
cake. In either case, if it does not
brown sufficiently in half an hour,
brown it under the gas flame a few
minutes more.
Hominy Souffle --2 cups of cold
cooked hominy, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1
tablespoon of melted butter, ?i cup of
rich milk, 3 eggs. Separate the yolk
and the white of the eggs and beat the
yolk lightly. Then mix the hominy,
the milk, the yolk, the salt and the
butter. 'Beat the white of the eggs
stiff, fold that into the other ingredi-
ents, pour the whole into a buttered
baking dish and bake it for twenty or
thirty minutes in a hot oven. Serve
the dish at once.
Economy Chocolate Cake -1% cups
of brown sugar, b cup of cocoa, 34
cup of sour cream, 1 tablespoon of
vanila, 2 generous teaspoons of baking
powder, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon of soften-
ed fat, ?"z cup of water, ?•s teaspoon
of soda, 2% cups of flour, a -pinch of
salt. Separate the yolk and the white
of the eggs; then add the yolk to the
auger, beat the mixture well and add
the salt and the fat. Boil the water
and smooth the cocoa in it; add the
soda and the vanila to the cream; mix
the flour with the baking powder and
wbip the white of one egg lightly. Mix
all the ingredients; then bake the
dough in two layers. To make a boil-
ed icing, beat the remaining white of
egg; then mix one 'cupful of sugar
with a little water and a pinch of
cream of tartar and boil the mixture
until you can spin it to a thread. Pour
it slowly into the beaten white of egg,
whip the whole until it begins to foam
grains, and spread it between the lay-
ers and on the top of the cake,
Good Cleaning Fluid.
Keep this on hand. It is said to
have originated in the British navy
and is in general use among both sol-
diers and sailors:
Cut four ounces of castile soap into
a quart of soft water and heat it until
the soap is melted. Remove from the
If the child performed those duties
perfectly he received a red cruse or a
red star for each one, which made it
poesible for hint to get eight red stars
every day. If, however, he failed in
any matter, the mother put down a
black ball and a black ball took away
two stars.
For every five red stars the reward
woe a cent. One red cross was equal.
to two red stars. At the end of the
week the score was added up and the
pennies or other rewards were given
with appropriate ceremonies.
The children were always present
when the red stars, red crosses or
black bails were awarded. They were
always intensely interested in the;
chart, end their disappointment was
bitter on receiving a black ball.
The mother reports, after several
menthe of testing the system, that it
bas been a great saving in words and
work and nervous tension. The chil-
dren are happier, for they have some-
thing to work for. They have a goal
in sight and strive for it earnestly.
Winter Diet.
Yr a require a certain amount of
coarse food, such as earn, to keep the
digestion in order. Here are five re-
cipes, based on corn products, that are.
delicious as well as healthful:
Hominy Waffler -3 eggs, 2 cups of
milk, 1% teaspoons of baking powder..
lard, lei cups of cooked hominy, 1 tea-
spoon of salt, 1 h cups of flour, Sep-
arate the yolk and the white of the
eggs; beat the yolk and add to it the
!hominy, the milk and the salt; then
add the flour and the baking powder,
sifted together, Whip the white of
the;eggs stiff and fold that in with the
Successful Authors at Play
Sir A Conan Doyle, although ap-
parently believes in the astral body,
lib's a pair of fists which aro by no
mane spiritual. In fact, the creator
of Rodney Stone, that best of all box-
ing and prize -lighting yarns, Is him-
self no mean exponent of the "noble
art of self-defence."
But the originator of Sherlock
Holmes is the Admirable Crichton of
literary sportsmen, for ho has travel-
led the world ever, Is a daring moun-
t= climber, can make as pretty a
out through the slips at Lords as many
a professional cricketer, and bas
scored a goad many centuries in his
time, can make even the best of lawn
tennis.players sit up and take notice,
le an indefatigable motorist, is a 0188 -
cult man' to follow across country with
the hounds, and. ea: find hie way both
into and out of a bunker as web as
most amateur golfers.
The greatest traveller amongst
Modern novelists was poor Jack Lon-
don; now that Inc le gone, the man
Who gave Captain Kettle --C, 3..Cttt-
cliffe Hyne--oto the world, probably
beide preYnier plsce. If there is tiny
earner oa tads ad+, earth he hon sot
been into, any desert, or mountain
range, or great river he has not seen,
any wild beast he bus not shot, then
someone should call upon`him and tell
hint of his =teethe, and he will sure-
ly include it in his next trip, seeing
that he reckons to do a pretty regular
ten thousand miles a year --except
when there's a world -war on.
He believes that a novelist who
wants to write "live" stuff, needs to
see "live" places. He possesses a fine
collection of bunting trophies.
Two of Britain's best-known writer
are at their best in a yacht—Sir
Arthur Quiller -Couch, the famous "Q"
of "Dead Man's Rock," ane John Oxen.
ham, Both these men are very much
at home on salt water or fresh, for
they aro as handy with an oar as with
a sail.
Probably the least sporty of literary
men are Rudyard Kipling, Sir James
Barris, and George Bernard Shaw,
The author of "Mary Rose" fa, how
ever, fairly useful with a bat, and has
often taken part in matches as a re-
presentative of the Press, whilst few
men have "mouthed" about country
lanes on a bike more than the other
two distinguished men.
The day returns and
brings .Ile the petty round
of irrtlating .c:oneerna and
duti' Reap us to play the
man; Help ug to perforin
them with laughter and
kind faces. Let cheerful-
ness abound with industry.
Give us to go blithely on
our business all this cl!;y;
bring us to our resting
beds, weary and content
a n d undishanored; and
grant us in the end the gift
of sleep.
fire,.and add two quarts of cold sof
water, When the liquid is quite cold
pour into it four ounces of ammonia
two of alcohol and two of ether. Bot
tie and cork tightly. When it is de
sired to remove grease spots or gener
ally renovate a garment, shake the
liquid well apply with a sponge or
cloth and rinse with clear water. When
fast -colored dress goods are to be
washed, add a cupful of the fluid to a
pailful of soft water, soak the gar-
ments in this water for a few minutes,
wash them and rinse thoroughly.
-An Alligator Farm..
now would you like to be the uta
with the bucket apd stick standin
among "uudreds of creeping cannibals
He Is the owner and manager of th
Strangest of the many strange farm
around Loa Angeles, the Melgato
larut,
Hie Is a little place—GMT about LW
acres -•-and the r,ew crop oath yens'
not large in numbers, but It is exceed
ingly valuable. A high fence se
rounds the farm and the visitors mus
each pay a quarter to get in; but it IS
well worth the money, for never dl
we learn so much lit one -halt hon
Imagine you are with us as I tell yo
about, these frightful- creature:,, hal
MV1.O,513AC
lie Teaches the Rattle -Drain a Few Fine Points of Small -
Town Newspaper Ethics,
By WILLIAM DUDLEY PELLEY.
PART IL
d f It was early in April that Joe -Dick
1. Paris read these lines that night
s with varied emotions. A for people
it struck as being funny. Others shook
wit
their ]reads, anti said there was we-
e thing funny sebout it, The poem. was
entirely uncalled for and vulgar and
v- libelous. The general consensus of
opinion was that the time had come
when Parts men ought to show this
young man that he was out of place
_ in their millet,
But in one eheep, stuffy littlLe bed -
o room up -stairs in; the rear of Mrs.
Mathers' School Street boarding house
there wee one person who read those
lines that night with a pale face, and
at upon whose heart their sentiment fell
lake burning, blistering acid, It was
HUM Mies,Lasher, The offensive news-
paper fluttered down to the straw mat-
_' ting. With her arm on the edge of
the wiedow sill, silhouetted in the
afterglow of a mellow spring sunset
she gave free vent to her tears, and
wept her heartache out there in the
darkness with no one to"see,
At eight o'clor k that night Sam Hod.
tame back from supper. He found
• -Pinkie Price in the office with that
evening's copy of the "esteemed but
loathed contemporary" spread out be-
fore him. The high school reporter
relinquished his copy to his employer,
and Sans. sat down at the exchange
table and read the whole attack
through verycarefully.
g
"Hang!" he swore sorrowfully.
"Joe's doing the same thing in his own
plant that he did when he worked in
here. He's making fun at the expense
of people who can't hit back. And—
i t's•--go t—to—stop l"
For •several minutes he eat smoking
and staring up at. the art gallery.
Then he said:
"I'm going to make Joe meet Miss!
Lasher face to face, and • teach him ai
lesson Inc deserves. "Pinkie," Inc ord-
ered, "run over to Mis' Mathers' place,!
and ask Miss Lasher to step over to
the 'Telegraph' office. When you've
got her headed here, run across the
street and tell Jce Dicks that the
' Mossback thinks kindly toward him
end wants to talk with him about an
important matter. Leave the rest _to,
me."
"Yes, sir," said the boy, and off he
started.
Pinkie turned into School Street,
and not far from the corner Inc over -1
took Broken Jones.
"That's a dirty, rotten thing in to-
night's 'Blade' about such as Angie
Lasher," declared the hunchback. "I'm,
visitin` Angie for the first time in
fourteen years, to ask her shall I
punch his fresh young' bead for that'
poetry."
Pinkie smiled. to himself. Together,
they waited on the piazza, a moment
later, for Mrs. Mathers to answer the
bell.
"Angie's up in • her room," announc-I
ed the portly landlady. "You two can,
come in the parlor, if you'll wipe your
feet careful. I'll call her."
The two went into the front room;
and` found seats cn the out -of -style:
red -plush parlor chairs.
(Continued to next issue.)
I
Platinum Fields of Columbia
Are Rich.
r, started the •pool: little Mx -cell -nen
u four -nage, ,boilerplate effusion wi
f its four or five columns of local an
r snake, half beast, wallowing In filthy
'" staghent water, eating "nothing bo
1 raw meat, fighting or sleeping all the
, time, and often eating their own hind
There are only1,800 alligators hero
g ,
t oldest one 'imported fr ne th
ho desat
1 s
-' .swamps of the Gulf States. They ar
carefully graded and kept in, lots
;fenced In by stout wire, each group
i having its own pond.under the euca-
;lyptus trees because wallow they
must.
1
The keeper has a dangerous job for
they caro not' what the meat Is, He
takes care to stand in front of them
for they cannot move forward swiftly
and mustuse their tails to strike their
prey and sweep It into their cavernous
mouths. Nor does he venture into the
fields where the biggest 'gators are,
The eggs aro the size and shape of
hen's eggs, and these are placed by
the mother -alligator in the Centre of a
mound of dirt and decayed matter
which sheheapsup, The warmth of
this filth hatches them.
Then the zoos all over the country
must have some to make their dis-
plays complete, and this "farm," es-
tablished fourteen years ago, supplies
many. Very many people buy them
for pets Or the oddity of the thing, and
Prices of the live ones vary according'
to the size. One must be six or eight
years old, before its skin is. worth any-
thing as leather for th'e lumps on the
back are just soft cartilage at first,
harden into bone gradually. ..
editorial that he celled a daily news
t Paper. Late oneeven'ing of the -follow
Ing month, !lis Telephone bell meg
and the curt voice of Alec Petherton
ordered him over to the shoe store,
1 "The mutual election of sebool trus
e tees comes oil' on the twentieth," Alec
e opened. "By .gad, we aren't ,going t
have the same bunch - of male old
ladies an that board If'I can help it
1 And by the help of this paper I know
that I can. Vlte're going after th
bunch of modsbeeks with• hemmer and
tong."
I've tried to do my best so far,'
began the Dicks boy dubiously, "al
though sometimes I think—"
But Alec d%ln't give a hoot just then
what the Dicks boy sometimes
thought.
My orders to you are -
thing!" he declared
editorial stylus and d
Punch the eternal tar
oppo-
sition. Shaw up our s
they're worth. Nothing
or do will be too strong
to dt!"
There was a rat mor
ly the Dicks bo rete
"But you'd think he
money to start and
protested the young -
cause he went on your
central of, this print•
hasn't, Joe. All our
hundred dollars' worth
gone into this paper. ,
Joe, it looks as if
them." Her voice end
"I know it, Nan," b
I can't talk .baelf just
the second •of those n
on the twenty-fifth. I'
darndest to help turn
school committee out
committee in."
And he sat down wvit
his typewriter, and tri
per, and lighted his p
gloomily into the wall
of him.
That was on a Tuesday.
evening his paper came
broadside of wood type
board members in ear
Paris' attention to the
of them had female re]
in the public schools,
the fact that Judge I
chairman because it pu
erlsaol's money in his h
fore into the judge's 'bank,
ed Sam Hod—whom he
name,' but always as th
being represented the
benefitted his politica]
but not least, he said
Whipple had no bud/
less
children were '
ferns sehool.." Just What
gain by that last slur i
was a cruel gash at Pe
old teller in Judge Fan
had been cursed with
sen. And that night, who Blnde
Untempted Righteousness.
Wherever a knot of students gath-
ered that day Lorton's ease was the
topic of conversation. The arrest had
taken place early, and few of the fel-
lows had witnessed it. Henry Vander -
Hp was one of those who did.
"It gave me a sense of sudden nau,
sea," he told Hammond and Gray
when the subject was brought up
later. "I lead the same feeling once,
when the mea founda couple C pie of -dead
rata in the well we'd been drinking
from up at the eamp. The water look-
ed
ook
ed Clean, but it was foul, and. we didn't
know it. That's the way with Lorton.
Ugh! It djsgusts suet"
Hammond's words 'came slowly, as.
if he were thinking them out as Inc
talked: "I understand from Derrick
and Shafer—they both room in Clark
Hall --that Lorton's term bills were
overdue. Derrick tells me Lorton has
been on the edge ever since Inc enter-
ed college. Several times Inc has
dropped out of the boarding house for
a fortnight or longer' and boarded him-
self on next to nothing. Shafer says
that Lorton invariably apologized to
his callers about the fire's being down,
but that 'down' was its normal con-
dition—to save fuel,
"Lorton said that he took the twen-
ty -dollar bill out of Morris' desk, con-
fidently expecting that he should be
able to replace it before Morris dis-
covered the theft. It seems he'd had
a rather urgent'reminderthat morn-
ing that his bills must be paid within
a specified time. That doesn't excuse
the theft,bbf course. It was a foolish
and criminal act, but a fellow who has
never bad any such strain on his
virtue bad better not be forward about.
condemning Lorton.
"I came across two words in a book
I was reading the other evening_ eui-
tempted righteousness.' Isn't ours
that kind so far as money Is concern-
ed? Has any one of us ever known
what it was to need a twenty -dollar
bill—need it badly enough to be wor-
ried for days over not having it? If
-we haven't, we oughtn't to judge the
fellow who hes. We don't know what
we should do if we were in his place.
Untempted righteousness is good In
its way, but it isn't qualified to sit in
Judgment on a fellow who has borne
the brunt—and gone down."
"I see, Hammond," said Vanderlip,
putting out an impulsive hand, and
Hammond winced under the grip.
"You're right. Untempted righteous-
ness—the soft sort that's never bad
to take hard knocks—lent an article
to boast of."
•
""Unknown."
An unknown British soldier was
buried in Westminster Abbey on the
second anniversary of Armistice Day,
The King was the sole mourner.
In old, old Westminster's sacred pile
there lies,
In cadet repose, with peasant, prince
and peer,
A man unknown to fame, yet laid to
rest,
With all the prayers of a broad Em-
pire blest,
And on whose grave a king has drop-
ped a tear.
His claim to Ile within that holy Fane
Is just, and none will him deny a place
'Midst ail the =bleat of old liingland's
dead,
Who gave her laws, who noble armies
led,
Who sang eweet songs for all the Bri-
tish race,
Not his the glory of the soulful bard;
Not his the glory of an honored
grave;
He was a warrior true, yet did not
lend
A gallant army at his country's need;
Ile Wass but one of the unnumbered
brave.
No single land can claim him for its
own,
No land can say that he le truly theirs,
Ile was an 1pmpire son, loyal and tree,
Ile came at Empire's call her will to
do,
And Britain neer forgets the son she
bears.
Sleep on, brave heart! a sacred tie
that binds
Still closer ell the links of likarire's
chain,
God give us faith and strength to still
venue
The path of honor and his will to do;
And keep unstained the Empire's
broad domain,
-G. Montague Mason.
Wings of War the Farmer's
Friend.
The newest idea for agriculture is
an airplane equipped for the planting
of the farmer's field with seed. It has
a system of perforated metal tubes,
laid crosswise on the wings, out. of
which the seed is forced by air pres-
sure created by the flight of the plane.
This kind of flying machine, as de-
scribed by Popular Mechanics, i8 built
for slow speed, with a roomy fuselage
that provides capacity for a large
quantity of grain. On each trip it
plants a row thirty-six feet wide. Fly-
ing only a few feet above the ground,
it ejects the seed with sufficient
velocity to bury it to the requisite
depth in loose, prepared soil.
At the end of each wing -tip there Is
a tube to throw down a thin stream of
white lime, marking the line of the
planted belt. In practice only one
tube would be used at a time, the
other being shut off. By this means
it should be practicable to plant one
equar'e mile, or 640 acres, in six hours,
flying forty miles an hour and allow-
ing one. minute at each end of the field
to turn and get lined up with the white
marker,
With a sowing capacity ofd1,000
acres a day, one machine could ade-
quately serve a large grain -growing
district working either on the co-
operative basis or by contract,
The Habit of Giving Your
Best.
How much better you feel when
you are conscious of giving your best,
unresertedly, of flinging your life out
in helpfulness, in inspiration and en-
couragement wherever you go. What
an infinite satisfaction there is in feel-
ing that we are helping somebody,
that we strew our ways with flowers
because we know that we shall never
go along the same road again, that we
make everybody with whom we have
come in pontaet feel a little •better—
this is the way to get the most out of
life. But unfortunately, most of us
do not open up ourselves to the world
very much. We are too selfish to fling
ourselves out, to show the best that is
in us, as we go along. We envy the
person who has this faculty, of fing-
Ing out his best, the aroma, the rich-
ness of his life, just as the rose flings
out its sweetness, its beauty, to every
passerby, without reserve, It is a
wonderful art and if everybody would
do it what a wonderful world this
would be.
Fling out your best this year. Don't
hold It in, Don't carry your best
things to the grave, give them to the
world.
"`I May Hot Pau This Way
Again."
"I may not peas this way again,"
Let this thought burn In heart and
brain,
So shall we live not all in vain,
Waw may not pass this way again.
Aa each small tender bad that grows,
Anon may turn to beauteone rose,
So each kind action serves to prove
The fragrant soul' of human love.
So ere we leave this passing show,
Where ail aro wanderers to and fro,
Inst each llfo's path a record be,
Unbroken to eternity.
Of man's true brotherhood to man,
i+'ramed in the great Creator's plan,
With those Nebo followed In Itis rain,
Who may not pass this way again.
Mlnard's Liniment Reliever Cottle, ria
to start some-
thing!" out your
dip at in vitriol
out of the
chtols for what
ng you can say
to suit me. Go
e talk, and final
rued to his office
put up all the
run this paper;
wife, "just be.
-
cause notes to gest
shop. And he
savings—seven
of them—have
And sometimes
we stand to lose
err in a whisper
e replied. "But
now—not with
otos felling due
Vire got to do my
that present
and put A1ec's
h his legs under
sled in some pa-
per, and stared
space in front
Wednesday
outwith a big
attacking the
nest. He called
fact that three
suers teaching
He referred to
Farmer acted as
t control of the
ands, and. there-
fore He accus-
ed not call by
e Mossback—of
re because it
fortunes. Last,
that old- Peter
ess on it because
m the state re -
ho hoped to
s vague. But it
ter, the kindly
men's bank, who
an inearrigibio
nthe"' "
appeared an our streets., the, liars and
double-dealers and villains and scoun-
drels and thieves .and swindlers gath-
ered together in knots and were wroth
—exceedingly wvroth,
"He ought to be run out of town!"
snapped Jeff Turner of the Paris hard-
ware store. "I wouldn't advertise in
this belly little handbill if lie gave me
the space for nuthin'."
But, `aside from a few telephone
call -dawns which the boy should have
estimated at a better worth, nothing
came of their wrath, Twenty-four
hones Later the "Blade" came out
again, pitifully devoid of any advertis-
ing but Alec Potherton's and a few
of nus sore head friends ono were slat-
ed for the board themselves,
In three -column treads and fourteen -
point type, it "tore to pieces" old Pro-
fessor Hale's record as a public in-
structor and superintendent of the
schools. It called attention to the fact
that the professor had received his
education in some forgotten .academy
around Civil War time, and demanded
to know whether Paris must tolerate
such out -of -data methods in its schools
as the old professor advocated. One
by one, it reviewed the old man's in-
efficiencies and, shortcomings, mast of
the material supplied by Alec Pother -
ton, until it made poor old man Halo
out something between a wife -beater
and a horsethief of the deepest dye.
In the ba,elc of his etore, that night,
Alec read the stuff through, winced
a couple of times, pulled out his "Laws
of Business," and tried to find the
detail of the law of Libel—abut eventu-
ally called Joe min on the telephone and
oongrattulated him in languega eigh-
teen inches high. Then, lowering his
voice, be •said:
"Now, go sifter 'em for employing
a bunch of female has-beens on their
teaching force,
The
• y went to it. And among
otherthings, in boxed rules en his
front page, he printed this exquisite
morsel of propaganda:
Our school beard is a wondrous thing
Of skirt and beard end moss and
fears
The Rule of ' Three is still in force
Our eehoolma'asns get their jobs
through tears.
To get a place at teaching school
In our town since this boatel ,begun
Is mot a ease of "normal school,'
But "miss your ohenee to catolt', a
man!"
To know your job, to handle kids,
To teach them modern things!--aso
chancel
Our school board's special. love is for
The f aysd-out elide of past re -
/nonce,
So ere you girls whose faces plain
Kill all yen& hopes of 3rorne and Icicle,
Don't lose your nerve --our texts will
Samna !y fat out your sparse old
WATER POWERS
OF MANITOBA
FUEL POWER ..PROBLEM
SOLUTION.
Greater Part of the Province is
Laurentian in Character With
Typical Watercourses.
The province of Manitoba, formerly
famed chiefly for its rich agricultural
lands, has within recent years begun
to realize and appreciate its bounti-
ful inheritance of varied natural re-
sources among which water powers
are of paramount importance, says C-
H,' Atwood, District Chief Engineer.
Several of these water powers have
been developed, notably two on the
Winnipeg river, which have proved of
vital importance in the industrial ex -
palmitin of the city of Winnipeg and
its environs. Many of the water pow-
ers are at present remote from the.
nwre thickly settled parts of the pro-
•vine and are, for that reason, more
particularly, important for the exploi-
talion of the natural resources of the
hinterland.
It isinevitable, newnitablo ho e r that with,
w ve
the increased cost of coal production,
transportation, and labor difficulties,
etc. and with advance in the art of
s
Idevelopment, .transmission and use of
I
hydro-electric energy, most of the
water powers will, in time, prove to
Ipbe important factors in the solution.
of the fuel -power . problems of the
rovance.
The Dominion Water Power Branch,
of the Department of the Interior, by
many years of hydro -metric survey
and reconnaissance, have largely de-
termined the power possibilities of the•
province. Their report on the power
reaches of the Winnipeg river within
the. province shows that by storage
and regulation, some 550,000 h,p. are
available within transmission distance•
of Winnipeg, Their investigations,,
have also covered the Saskatchewan
river at Grand Rapids, the Nelson
river, the Manigotagan, Wanipigow,
Pigeon, Berens, Bloodvein, Dauphine
Fairford, Waterhen, Mossy, Minns-
dosa, Grass, Burntwood and Church-
ill rivers, as well as smaller streams,
Administration Regulations.
Piatim:nl, which was worth $0 an
ounce not very nutty years ago,
fetches $110 an ounce to -day, or more
than five tinmes as much as gold.
It is said to have been first discover- i
ed In Columbia by a Spaniard named'
Antonio Ulloa. For a long time there- I
after miners in Columbia, finding It
commonly associated with gold, threw
the ,platinum away. recently seven-
teen pounds of it were recovered from
the foundation of an old building in ,
the Quibdo district, the site of which.1
was an ancient refuse damp.
The present high price of platinum •
is largely due to the falling off of sup -I
plies from Russia, which has been the
Principal producer. But the mining of
the metal in Columbia has been great-
ly stimulated thereby.
The metal in Columbia is found
chiefly along the Atrato River and the
Cauca Valley south to the border of a
Ecuador. The Atrato is 300 miles long
(two-thirds of it navigable by steam-
ers) and empties Into the Gulf of 0
Darien by fifteen mouths,
The water powers of the province
of Manitoba are administered under
regulations pursuant to the Dominion
Water Power Act, 1919. These regu-
lations provide for the exploitation of
the water power resources under full
Government control of rates, rentals„
etc. These regulations absolutely pre-
vent unwise and premature develop-
ment of water p seer and provide for
the permanent retention in the Crown.
of the ownership and control of the
power project. Concessions are only
made for limited periods to bona fide
applicants capable of prosecuting the
development to a successful issue.
Application for water power privi-
leges in Manitoba should be address-
ed to the director of Water Power,.
Department of the Interior, Ottawa.
General Characteristics of the Pro-
vince,
The extreme southern and south-
wvostern portions of the province be-
long geographically to the Plain re-
gion, composed for the most part of
treeless prairie, traversed with rivers
of tortuous courses and Rat gradients.
The grcatar part of the province, how-
ever, is Laurentian in character, with
the rivers typical of that formation;
lake -like expanses followed by con-
gested channels with falls and rapids.
of more or less turbulence. Lake-
Winnipeg
akeWinnipeg forms the 'collecting basin
for the southern rivers, the more im-
portant of which are the Winnipeg.
from the east; the Red and Assini-
boine, from the south; and the Sas-
katchewan, from the west. The Lake
n turn diseharges north-easterly by
way of the Nelson river to Hudson
Bay.
In addition to the Nelson, the waters
of the northern part of the province.
re collected by the Hayes and Church_,,
11 rivers, both of which discharge into
Hudson Bay, the former to the south
f the Nelson and the latter to the
north, The period of low flow occurs
uring the winter months on all the
!vers of Manitoba, due to the fact
hat precipitation during that' period
is conserved in the farm of ice and
now; flood flow occurs in the spring
nd early summer months, The rivers
which traverse the prairie territory
have a wide variation between low
and high flow, whereas most of those
In the Laurentian country aro re-
markably regular, due to the stabil.
!zing effect of the many lakes, swamps
and muskegs in their various drainage
basins.
Among the larger power sites, those
of the Winnipeg are the molt advan-
tageously situated with regard to the.
present centres of population and rail-
way facilities, Moat of the others are
somewhat remote from thickly popu-
lated district,
Homes Under the Sea.
n
Houses, streets, theatres, picture t
palaces, ecce buried under the sea, are
reminiscent of Jules Verne. A mo- s
derv. wizard, Mr. E. R, Calthrop, who a
designed the Admiralty mystery
towers, one of whcih was recently
moved to the Solent, may be respon-
sible for this miracle, says a London
newspaper,
It has been suggested that a large
submarine hotel and theatre be built
at Hythe, the same principle it is as-
sumed being need no in the case of the
naval towers.
The inventor puts forward yet an-
other interesting suggestion. He
Plans an artificial island home oniric
neath the waves, some miles out from
the Goodwin Sands, Tho burden of
the conventional householder -•-rates
and taxes, customs, dues, licensing
restrictions, etc.—could not apply, he
contends, to such Wand 'colonists.
Minard's Liniment for Burns, etc,
COARSE SALT
LAND SALT
Hulk erode&
T NONTO eAA.r Wpntfb
C. a. OLIN" , TORONTO
Six o4 the nine Canadian Provinces
reach trait water and crin therefore
have ocean ports, 'viz,' Nova Scotia, -
Prince Edward Island and New Brims-
wick, forming the Maritime Provinces,
Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba now
roaehthe shores of Hudson's Bay, and
British Columbia,
Nearly 25,000 people met with deativ
or injury on Britian+ airways last
year. The number killed wee 932,
While 23,988 were tt(edb