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• Annual o r' 1 rn Patrol
Exploratory and Administrative Work Carried Out During
Adventurous Cruise Among Canada's Arctic Islands.
The good steamship Ariti! is safely
baolt againin Quebeo afker an.atkvon-,
throne voyage of over two menthe int
the fee -laden seas of the A:retla ocean.'
The purpose of the voyage was to
oarn more of Canada's little 'known
northland, to establish two new Posta,
andto leave MIPPlies at the posts es-
tebl'sliad last year, to make seientific
observations and to'ilpd out as much I
nit possible in the limited time avail-
able about the resources of this vaat
northern region. Captain J, IJ, Ben•
slier, the doughty mariner of severity -
odd summers, wait again in commend
Of tate veseol, while Mr. Frank A. Hen -
Mahon, D.L;S„ was in (Marge of the
scientific gad invostlgatory,work for,
the Department or the Interior, which
sponsored the expedition,,
The voyage, as wee to be expected,)
was not without its perils' and adven-
tures. Leaving Quebeo on July 5, the
Arctic proceeded down the river and
gulf of St. Lawrence, passing through
-the strait of Belle Tale on the lith and
beadlug nor•.thwar4 -front Cumberland
sound. The next day, when 160 miles
from Belle tele, is fifty -mile gale swept
over bet. Being so very heavily
,she rode low in the water and was ill
suited to meet the buffeting of the
storm. A. tremendous wave broke over
'her, Roodiug the engine room, Putting
out"the fires and shifting' the cargo to
such on extent that she took a decided
list to port. The men worked like Tro-
Jans but things seemed to go from
ball to worse. Finally it was decided
ton the morning of the lath
h o 3 to throw
overboard a deck loocoal. a tl! e d of c 1, T hie
-was done, but eo roughly had the vessel
'been used that it was not until the ! ,
.evening of the 17th that her engines
were again in working order and she
was able to proceed.
Company's post eatab11e1ied last yQ0l'.
The post of the Sabelium Tradinft
Company, witiah like Clyde le on the
est owlet of Hewn island, was oleo!
visited, 'rise remainder of the Voyage r
was Made in goad time without mis.
hap and the ship sleeked at Quebec on
September 25, 'laving been absent over
two and n half months.
Important scientific work was done.
Barometric instruments were installed
oe the ship by the Dominion Meteoro.
logical aerates, and readings were
taken throughout the voyage, Surveys
and magnetic observations were under
the direct charge of Mr, I•lenderson,
whilst tile oflcial photographer, R,
Task, obtained many excellent atilt
pictures In addition to about 6,000 feet
of Maytag .picture film,
Radio now plays an important part
in all a ientifle expeditions to landi
that are little known. The Aratie was
fully equiplied with wireless inatru,
ments which kept her in emelt with
the civilized world. :Press, matter was
fairly eoliaistently received from Louis-
burg, Nova Scotia, except for about
two weeks when the ship was far
north in,perpetual 'daylight. Sixty-six
messages were received from Pitts-
burg (Station 8XS). The amateur
transmitter wes found .to give good
service up to 5,000 miles. When In
the vicinity of Dundas Harbor and
• Ponds inlet communication was had
!With several amateurs in Canada and
'the United States. The Islands Falk,
' a Danish patrol host off the Greenland
coast, relayed a number of messages
at a time when direct communication
with Louisburg
was cut off.
On July. 22 Blacklead island and
•Cnmterland sound were reached and
Inaper!or C. E. Wilcox of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Pollees was taken ' •
on board: Ile remained with the ship The service of three meals a day
for the teat of the voyage inspecting to a family represents a total weekly
load of one and one-third tons. The
distance covered in the preparation of
a single light meal is about 127 yards,
went ashore to remain there to con- and stair climbing in a week is equina=
duct exploratory work In the southern lent to the ascent of a 8,000 foot moue -
part de Baffin Island until the ship tale. These figures may, be more or
halls next year. A very poor year for 1Sss according to the planning of the
furs was reported by the Hudson's house.
Bay Company's agent at this; post. He
said, 'however, -that an unusual amount
of whale oil had been taken, one drive
netting over 800 whales (Delphinus
Lamas).
The next point of sail was, at God-
havn, Greenland, where a welcome.
was extended by Herr Lindow, Gover-
nor of North Greenland. The call at
Godhavn, now an annual affair, 1s al-
ways interesting, for there it can .be
learned what the Danes have been only common-sense based on expert
able to da for the natives in 150 years knowledge. The knowledge of the ex -
of supervision. Here a quantity of pert can be used to advantage in the
local coal was taken on to replace that home to make' housework lighted and
thrown overboard ih the storm. Ponds more efficient to the increase in the
Inlet was reached on August 5, health and happiness of the mother
At Craig Harbour, the nextpoint of and her family
call, three members of the. Royal Cana- The housewife who would take' ad
dian Mounted Police and two Eskimo vantage of these improvements must
families who had spent the Year there be ready to consider her domestic
were Lound in good health. They re. methods and school herself to -use
ported, however, that in February lest, measures to reduce fatigue, .
while the thermometer registered 66 Skilful. Planning Reduces Labor.
degbelow zero, the main building of Take, for example, the total weight
the post had been burned to the carried to and fro in the daily service
ground. Since• then. the police had 01 three meals to a family of six. It
been forced to live In a shall building t has been demonstrated as amounting
tbs.). formerlyand been used as a ff to 440 pounds, which represents a
blubber house. t weekly total of one and one -thin' tons.
Still sailing northward the expedi- i This beavy burden could be reduced
tion touched at latah, Greenland, and to a fractional .amount it a wheel tray
then cror",sieg Smith sound skirted or tea wagon were employed. •In one
cape Sabine and the south shore of kitchen the distance covered by the
Pim island searching for a suitable `feet of the cook in the preparation of
site for a post, In 1923 these shores ' a light meal Was reduced from. 118
had been. completely blocked with ice yards to 11 by re -arrangement of the
and quite inaccessible. A building was • relatlZye positions of sink, stove and
finally erected on the west shore of food cupboard. In another house the
- Mee strait' near Kane basin and called domestic worker was saved each week
Kane Basin Detachment. • It Is thehe an amount of stair climbing equiva-
tention of the police at Craig Harbor • lent to the,asceht of a three thousand
to make a patrol to thispoint during foot mountain, plus her heavy loads
the whiter, a die ahce of over 200 • of water, when a fitted bathroom was
`miles. From Kane Basin Detachment, I Installed on the first floor,.
which is in Lat 78 deg, 48' N., about Stooping and Lifting.
2,300 miles due north of Ottawa, the1
Quite encoixiaging progress can be
expedition turned southward on Aug- i reported on the saving of muscular ire
Aug-
ust 12, and on August 14 was again at tfgue and leakage of nervous energy
Orate Harbor.; ( by Intelligent readjustments 1n kit -
The next point of pall was D d
HOUSEWORK AND
HEALTH
the posts visited. At Pangnirtung, on
the 24th, one of the ship's party, Mr. J.
D. Soper, of the Geological Survey
The engineer safeguards the me-
chanical engine from dangerous over-
loading, but the batman machine which
does the .housewife's work carriesan
unlimited -load on an unlimited ache:
dale. Scientific methods have lighten-
ed the toll of many factory workers.
Many housewives scoff at the. idea 01
using scientific methods in housework
and 'consider them as frills and fads,
but,atter all, scientific methods are
nn as ellen fitments and equipments; .but
Harbor, Devon Island, where a site I many opportunities for economizing
fora post had been selected and sur-
veyed
ur• etreugth are still overlooked, :For ex -
commodious
in 1923,odious andd Is harbor k safe and said to open out l ample, fete women realize that to rise
comm
remarkably early la the summer, Ten, from the stooping position each time
days of strenuous wont were required involves sifting halt the weight of
to iand material and supplies, and to their own bodies. It a woman weighs
ereeta barracks and a store -house. On 130 pounds, each time she stoops to
August 29, all being complete, the new fend the fire with fuel or uses an old
peat was opened with suitable sere- fashioned short handled dustpan, she
monies, raises, when straightening her bank,
Proceeding from Panda Inlet to a weight of sixty -n pounds—a
wholly unnecessary waste of. strength.
Nava' Board Inlet, a stop was mad- itt i.rho coal or wood can be easily raised
Canada Point on Bylot island where to any level desired by placing the
some seams of coal were noticed, but'' fuel box on a slap's stand as can be
ing several days stop at Ponds Inlet,
where the engines of the ship Were lie- i alao the tireless looker,• while a firm
lug overhauled, a party made an ex_1e'ooden handle at least throe feet long
plotatory trip of some 12 miles inland • can be titled with little trouble to the
up Salmon river, Three lakes were l dustpan, i
noted anis ripe blueberries of good Arrangement of Shelves,
site and flavor were found in abundance I Another illustration of labor making
on the Itilleldes, It is from a mine I invention is found in the depths of
on this river about tour miles from itscupboards and the belght end width
mouth that the tandems!s Bay Com• i of alielviug. Both cupboards and open
pony gets Its euppty of east ter the' shelves should be raised free) two to
poet, and it is the intention of the t three: feet from the floor end not ex -
rood a height of six Met from the
ground, A shelf depth 101 exceeding
twelve inches !s adequate and in some
polkas to make a beglnuleg this win-
ter In getting their coal locally.
Oh the way southward a wall was
suede at rllyde, a new I3ndeon's Bay cases six incites would suffice. The
Boys are shown betas instructed haw to ,:eat, u.e •'tii,u" at
the Royal Hospital School, Greenwich, one of the fineet equipped nurseries
of the British navy.
amount of Lifting, reaching and search -!l,
Ing for smn11 objects concealed behind:
erger onea, often incalculable, is at
once minimized where these sugges-
tions have been adopted. Doubtless,
the question of sufficient space for
storage would be raised by those to
whom this form of labor saving is un-
familiar, tut, in these days of simpli
ficationn the one ne hand and of In-
creased effiefeno 0
y Y oguipment on the
other; the gain. would be found to out -
balance any necessary readfustments
involved.
Labor Saved.
The limit of space forbids reference
to that most efficient and adaptable of
all domestic servants, electricity, or
to the labor saving value of gas, where,
electricity is not availatle, or to !take
more than briefest -mention of the
more intelligent use in domestic pro-
cesses of such "multipliers" of human
energy as the lever, wheel, pulley, in:
Mined plane„ and so forth, so little
used by busy women to lighten their
labors and to promote their efficiency.
The worth of measurement innumer-
ous directions for the same ends; the
cultivation of good posture and of
mental poise as solvents of home prob-
lems; the part played by light,air and
temperature In the quality and speed
of output; the place of rest and re-
laxation in the promotion of efficiency„
and in the maintenance of a eontent-
ed family circle, are, one and all, fac-
tors of supreme importance too tittle
considered, but clamoring for atten-
tion as allies in the intelligent conduct I
of domestic duties, arid as olds in the
elimination of conditions unfavorable
to the rearing of healthy citizens.
...fir '. ...
Canada's Undeveloped Water -power.
A recent study of the undeveloped
water -power available in the eastern
and southern areas of Canada and the
United States, from the latest official
figures, and including the chief Indus-
trial. areasof both :countries, shows
that Canada has over 13,000,400 H.P,.
still undeveloped and the United
States only a little over 1,400,000 H.P.
Such a situation cannot fail to ad-
vance Canada% industrial develop.
went
This French Academy at a recent
meeting decided not to recognize the
words '•'defeatism" and "defeatist"
"Those words do not apply in any
manner to the people or things •of
France," declared Marshal Jotfre
when they came up for consideration,
And like the invaders at Verdun the
words did not pass.
A White Wyandotte hen that an
English writerdescribes is a remark-
able layer. She began to lay as a
pullet and between August 2, 1923,-
and August 1, 1924, laid 322 eggs, the
last of which weighed two ounces.
That, twriter riter asserts, is an
achievement never excelled by a hen'
of any kind in the. British Isles.
South of the Churchill River in
Saskatchewan there are thirty-two
million acres of forest land unfit for witms for Lutur
agriculture. Of this area about one -
though
industry in Canada at the pre -
fifth (somewhat over six million sent time is not very . extensive,
acres) has been set aside as forest though holding great possibilities of
reserves. expansion with the development of
CANADA'S EXPORT
OF EMS
at
Three hundred barrels ofi live eels
were ahipped by Dominion Express
from Montreal to Germany and Hol-
land
olland during the month of September.
This is believed to be the first con-
signment of its -kind to leave the coun-
try for Europe, and hopes are enter-
tained of its marking the beginning
of a regular trade of some profit to the
Dominion and in particular the Pro -
Moines of Quebec. The eel has long
been a favorite article of diet with
epicures' of certain European coun-
tries, but hitherto Canada, which is
so excellent a source of supply, has
not placed its product upon. the Euro-
pean market,
Canada has, however, an export
trade in this species of fish which has
of recent years shown signs of in-
creasing in -volume and is accruing
profit. In the fiscal year 1922, 8,626
cwt. of eels worth $86,015 left the Do-
minion; in the following year 9,539
cwt. worth 065,947; and in 1924, 13,-
616 cwt. worth $95,109. These went
almost exclusively to the United
States, which has hitherto been Can-
ada's only dependable marget for eels,
the Province of Quebec supplying tha
cities of the East with this delicacy.
A few .years ago, to meet a sudden
dearth of eels in New Ybrk market,
some 200,000 of these fish, worth 0100,-
000,
100;000, were shipped In three specially
constructed barges which were so ar-
ranged that water flowed in and out
of the vessels at all times, keeping the
fish alive. They had been caught in
the mouth of . the St,' Lawrence River
and arrived in New York in the pink
of condition. This shipment had
some effect in stimulating the trade
in eels between the two countries. It
Is hoped that this first European ship -
stent may have the same effect and
develop this particular phase of Cana-
dian 'fisheries, which is capable of
muchexpansion-
Common in Canadian Rivers.
Eels are common in alt -Canadian
rivers discharging into the sea, and
the species found in the waters of the
Dominion is of high quality and In
general favor among epicures. The
eel was exploited at a very early stage
of Canadian history, the discoverers
and founders of New France describ-
ing the Indians as indulging extensive-
ly in the fishery ad the catch forming
an' important part of their diet. Fish-
ing along the St. Lawrence River by
day was, practiced with a wicker bas-
ket Seto which the fish' were led at
low tide through a way 'arranged by
heaping stones along the beach. At
night the Indians fished with harpoons
with a light in the prow of their
canoes. They smoked the catch and
hung the curets fish about their wig-
s consumption,
ii.at,S, Linn is 1,1 tlrydock at Jarrow, bi-':ng diwrn;iutrr.t i•act,a,.<<ury t.o
complete demolition. The vessel was Ferntcrly Admiral Bontty' flagship and
participated in brilliant sea service,
now motets, A yaluable nahary is lt,Merfi tF ionnn env I **
carrto,i nu In th0 ltichlieu River In ru n j! A NEWSPAPER RUN
Quobac, which brings its 11•aln $10,000 KNOWN
IN OCCIDENT
yy�� p q 5
t4 016,060 to ire PWnmt', Tllere ie an•, OwN IN OCCIDENT By
i\OYf'A�F+✓
other equally profitable at Navy Ili -i
land in St. Joiul 'Sorbet, New Bruns- -
wick. Of recent years co.'s itave beefs'
iutraducod into lathe Ontarlo,. where BUT' HIGHLY REGARDED
they are tdlriviug, with the premise of
roturutug a handsome revenue to ash, , IN ASIA AND AFRICA.
er'men who will engage in their catch.;.
In the 1;1e1Aieu River as many as '
2,400 eels harm been caught in 000 Locusts, Grasshoppers and
day, and elle average for the season M.
1,000 Per day. The catch from thie I Other Tiny Creatures Con.
vicinity is shipped to Chimp, whilst
butt from other parts of the St. Iatw•time to Please the
"once River gime to supply the Newi
Oriental Palate,
ork market. About 100,000 paunch, Many kinds of Insecta are currently
,are shipped from the Dominion in a'
good season. As a rule, In transit, the relished in Asfa, Africa and South
eels ars kept In barrels, about 100 America. The Greeka and Romans
poultde 10 each container, and are were fond of them but modern Euro
packed In ice, Tiley reach New York peens do not sat them, We may shed•
and Chicago alive sad in the best con dor at the titougats of eating insects
dition for marketing. but we readily eat the nearly related
,� 'crabs and lobsters, writes Paul Sobord-
lin.
The animal and vegetable sub -
Mamas that we use as food are so
Construction and Care numerous that. itwould be difficult to
enumerate them completely, .But the
of Canadian Piano striking teeng is that the immense
class of insects, of which we know to-
, day 600,000 epeefea,furnishes us with
1 movingonly one edible product—honey, We
Lectures, illustrated w th ought . strictly to add manna—the
picture films of an educational char sugary substance that exudes from
atter, and which had for their purpose certain speclee of trees, through holes
the showing (Chow Canadian pianos made by divers Insects. But this is
are made and bow the public should used rather aa a medicament than aa
take care of them, were recently given a food, although several races use it
in various Canadian cities by a young te prepare a kind of sweetmeat, with
white of egg and almonds.
Crickets' and Locusts.
Montreal music lover, P, A. Pratte,
His audiences were composed mostly
of music techere and those interested
"We will have a Royal ncwepllper
2 will be editor, rho Queeo aub•odttor
and members of the gourt coatrtbn
mist„
,4111r0ugh he did net eetually say
this, that le what the Prtnee Consort
meant when, ycara ago, he founded tile
"Court Clroular," to which savory uewe•
paper has since been Indebted for a
faithful record _of 11ayal rnoven)ente
and engagements.
Recently there was mole talk of die..
continuing the "Circular," for King
George, unlike King Edward, who itt-
taohedl much importance to the pubit-
cation and was a great stieltler for
minute acenl'aay, eepeelally in the
deseriptions,at the persons mentioned,
le said to have expressed hie epiniou
that the paper mete more Cann it is
worth. Ile holds that fn these days 0f
up -to -ditto journalism It is 000800a-
sary.
1 Queen Victoria took a 'teen interest
' in the "Circular," and it wasp her yule,
when Her Majesty wait in residence at
Balmoral, to send a special copy to
one pf the Aberdeen palters every
wening. Furthermore,' although the
Court Newsman was responsible far
the publication of the "Circular,' the
Queen herself on special occasions
contributed to its pages,
A Magnificent Tribute.
Perllape the moat remarkable "Court
Circular" ever sent out—certainly no
other has been so much spoken about—
was issued one day in 1883, when John
Brown, Her Majesty's faithful Iifgh-
land attendant, died. its contained the
foliowing lines:—
"Au honest, faithful, and devoted fol-
lower, a truetwortity, discreet, and
straightforward man, Possessed of
strong sense, he filled a position of
great and anxious responsibility, the
duties of which he performed with
such constant and increasing care as
to secure for himself the real friend-
ship of the Queen. To Her Majesty
the loss is irreparable, and the death
of this truly faithful and devoted ser-
vant has been a grievous shock to the
Queen."
Nor was this tribute surprising, con-
sidering the high regard Queen Vic-
toria
iatoria entertained for the stalwart
Highlander, whose fidelity to hie
duties was such as to earn not only.
the entire confidence, but the real
friendship of the Queen.
Once Her Majesty wrote of him:
"He was always respectful, nerver aer•
vile; always useful, never obtrusive;
usually silent, but when he did speak
he was blunt and direct."
By Wireless.
Nearly every event 01 State import,
ante is notified in the "Court Circus
Iar." Every time the I{ing receives
a Prime Minister or any officer of
State the foot is duly chronicled, and
in the same way, when His Majesty
has an audience with Ambassadors or
Governors, or when he performs any
ceremony or act, the public is inform-
ed of it through the Court Newsman.
An interesting event in the bistory
of the "Court Circular" was' that which
occurred on November 15th, 1911,
when it was diol •patched by wireless
telegraphy.
At that time the King and Queen
were going to attend the great Corona-
tion
oronation Diirbar, and the customary as
count of the Court doings was trans-
mitted by wireless from Gibraltar. I1
was a week later that the "Court Cha
cular" described for the first time the
King and Queen Consort of these
realms as "Their Imperial Majesties."
This aaose, of course, from the feat
that it was only when the King -Em-
peror and the Queen -Empress. reached
Aden that the full Imperial style and
title could be ,accorded them.
In seeing more pianos and other) Are insects, then, inedible? Cor
musical instruments in the homes of tninly-not, for facts prove the con -
the Canadian people trary. Open the Bible and you will
Most of his attention, of comae, waa find there in the third book of Moses,
focussed upon the piano hik de
r'
1n Chapter 7CI, verses
P 21, 22, that the
to his heort. Ho gave evidence that; Jews ate four kinds of crickets. Ac -
this country has kept away from the cording to the Evangelist St, Matthew
dishonest cultivation of the piano in-; (III, 4) St,:Jahn the Baptist subsisted
dustry, and that there is perhaps no in the desert on locusts and wild
other country in the world where, 1n a y honey.
general manner, all the pianos made i' The ancient Greeks, we are told' by
are as uniformly good as the ones' Aristophanes, whose works are so valu-
ritade 1n Canada, and that both the able for the knowledge of Athenian in-
commeraial pianos„as well as the high stitutlons and customs, at the end of
grade instruments, compared advent-; the fifth century used locusts as food,
ageously in comparison with the best Be represents these insects as being
known foreign makes, without excep• sold currently in the markets. Died -
1100. i ores of Sicily, a Greek historian con -
He insisted emphatically on the fact' temporary with Caesar and Augustus,
that every teacher should educate his tells us that locusts served as food
relations, Eriende and all the people: among many peoples of Africa and
he can influence, in order they would, Arabia.
recognize that their own interest,. as 1 This custom exists yet. In the
wets as the interest of their country, French colonies in north Africa the
to that, in .the buying of a piano, they! natives collect the migratory grass -
should give their preference to the hopper in great quantities for food.
Canadian instrument; that
they They are eaten raw, boiled or Pried.
should be convinced that they can per -1 What is not eaten at once is dried in
chase a very good instrument at alae sun for future use. The ancient
most reaponableprice, without having Romans, fine epicures, as they were,
' to pay one-third of the cast to the Pima tells us, regaled themselves with
Customs; that by doing so they would,' fat larvae of insects gathered from
give work to Canadian labor at 1108 trees and called oossus- We do not
.ve•rymoment when our beloved coun-
t/anal know exactly what those were: Prob-
' try needs the co-operation of all her; ably they were the larvae of beetles.
children, thus inculcating a true nit-! Fabre, the learned and lamented ento-
spirit. urologist, thought they were the larvae
Mr. Pratte added that to buy Cana- of theeat horned ned beetle.
dian pianos is, however, not sufficient„
We are all required to take good care . «The good old man, called by Darwin
of them, if we really want to draw the the Homer of insects,” even made the
experiment himself, In hie Entente -
maximum of pleasure and the 11Yetim
service promised by the makers.
Tuner's Work Very Necessary.
He drew attention also to the dis-
astrous work of dampness, the ruln-
logical Souvenirs he treats of the mat-
ter at length. He says: "Roasted,
they are juicy, tender and tasty, There
is acertain flavor of roasted almonds
with a vague aroma of vanilla."
ous sudden changes of temperature; Larvae are still used as food. Ser -
the bad effects of direct sun rays; the oral Chinese peoples find caterpillars
destruction of the felts of the piano and the chrysalises of the silkworm
by insects and vermin, and then he excellent. They aro tried in butter or
prescribed the right remedies for oil, with the addition of yolk of egg
those destructive elements, and other ingredients. The Heves of
Ise spoke about the importance of Madagascar regale themselves with
having their pianos tuned at least 2 the chrysalises of the bombyx, which
' or !1 times in the year by a good! -are eaten friend or boiled.
And Others.
We find natives of Australia who
and accidental troubles met In the life eat night moths which they pursue
of a piano, and due fo"the lack of tare, and catch with the, aid of torches.
by the owner, but for which the piano ` These are first dried and then their
and the maker are always blamed. wings are removed. In Mexico live
How a Piano la Built. tribes who eat a kind of bread made in
• Pursuing, Mr, Pratte explained how great part of the eggs of noteneetes,
a piano is made, with details, and This name means nothing to you but
showed the importance of the piano I beg to inform you that they are large
industry, He exposed the unlimited water bugs. The honey ants, swelled
possibilities of the Dominion of Can- with sweet matter, which are used for
oda if we all ca -operate to her develop- a dessert in Central America, are too
nient; praised the Canadian workman- well known to readers to be mentioned
ship and the good spirit of our laborers further.
to which he extended his tribute of
sympathetic esteem.
I•le made an eloquent appeal to the
heart and spirit of his audience in
tuner, a man having sufficient know-
ledge of piano making to get rid of
the tbousand said one light ordinary
We should mention also the ter-
mites, the gathering of which anions
several tribes of tropical Africa and
Brazil is as important as the grain
favor of the future of Canada, and harvest is with us. The natives of
preached the mutual respect and a Africa make bread withthese insects,
better comprehension of the ideals of while those of Brazil prepare them
the two great races, wishing for the with a sauce, Even in Europe famine
perfect harmony among all the Cana•! sometimes forces us to eat insects.
We shall mention only the case that
occurred toward the end of the
seventeenth century in County Gal-
way, Ireland, where the inhabitants
A pocket knife with replacable were reduced to +looking and eating
blades that has been invented holds cockchafers,
them rigid when opened sothey can I These 'examples, taken at random
not slip and injure a user's fingers. from mshw Insecta
A good rube ymtui and old to quits edibleany, andoareus sontetintesthat classedere
It as delicacies. Why do not we Oooi.'
fol:ow is; ardfox against feeling dentals eat thorn, then? Well, it is
older titan yon are.I because we are not accustomed to do
may
Wintercost cruisesnsmuch aboasa$12rd ,tux0'u00;ryth]ietielin- rsso, We ow the ex-
instinnt1vely foll
ample of our fathors, who themselves
did not eat !meets,. Like them we
ors travel 28,168 miles on these trips have a horror of the slow and silent
round the world•
, "in the wake of the movements of those .little creatures;
sou," I we shudder at the hard ehells covered
I,t coni aging results "aro , reported with prielrles or haire, at the long legs
teem the throwing open to grazing 01 and at the .liinchera. And nevcrthee
muted areas, its Alberta forest re -
mach
our own menus 111010de dishes not
serves, and as ,the northern districts nttioh more appetizing. Think, for in -
is stance, of the snails and the frogs'
are opened up considerable increase
expected. The grazing in 'these die- 1� o also eat many ireaturos that are
triols is favorab:e to the forests (lose relatives of the insects, such 00
• through reducing the fire hazard. 1 crabs, eryfish and' lobsters,
dian citizens.
Reptacabte Knife' Blades.
The dogs of France, says a Paris
newspaper, eat about 2,260,000 pounds
of white bread a day, or approximate -
1y one tenth of all that is eaten in tho
city. For the past two years the news-
paper has been urging people not to
waste bread; now because the wheat
crop is so poor, it has started a cart
paign against dogs. It suggests that
bakers be required by law to make dog
bread containing bran and assorts
that tests have proved that dogs
thrive best on bread of that sort.
"Bobbed" hair in this generatioe
may mean bald, bearded women in the
future, according to the Vice -Presi-
dent of the American Wholesale
Beauty Trade Association.
The air contains sono y very tare
gases. -„Neon, a. ,has reed 1b4))1•.aleo-
trio bulbs required to give an orange.. '
colored light, is so scarce that St.
Paul's Cathedral would only contain
enough to fill a nutshell.
Adirondack lumbermen have spared,
a certain magnificent white pine tree
;that is one hundred and twenty-five
I feet high, The 'lead of the oompan
!that is cutting the timber explained
that his father had so much admired
the great pine that he had (eked his
sons to let ft stand.
The Dept, of Marine and 11'isheriee
reports that the prospects for a bump-
er collection of sockeye salmon eggfi
in Owekauo lake, Rivera Inlet, are
very promising, and seine of the
streams in thie district are et present
carrying the largest run of 000koye
in several years. A peculiar feature
of the aotn to this lake this yeari
pp
that it is approximately two week
earlier than it has been for some years
eM the fish aro unusually large,