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Got'flot� Smith.
Something Will Groin
No matter what sort of a spot
ws have there are some things
that will grow. In gardening one
hears much of fine, rich loam
and sunshine, and while those
conditions may be ideal for e
lot of plants, there are others
that actually prefer a location
far less favorable. In poor dusty
soil, for instance, there are, hardy
flowers like portulaca, alyssum,
• zinnias, and many more that will
make a good showing, Then the
dark corners near walls or under
fairly dense shades are ideal
places for begonias and pansies
and certain fern -like flowers
that shrink away from the bright
sun Even soggy corners have
their favorites and poor wind-
swept rocky slopes. Rugged
climates, .too, are no handicap.
Indeed in some northern gar-
dens are grown the very finest,,,
of vegetables and the brightest
of flowers. Away up or rather
down on the northern tundras in
01e summer time the ground is
aflame with bright bloom. in
any good Canadian seed cata-
logue will be listed flowers and
vegetables that will thrive in
unusual places and it will pay to
study these special likes if we
are to do the best with unusual
locations.
Bot Weather Hints
The wise gardener will change
his methods when the days turn
hot. With the lawn he will cut
less frequently, and not so short,
and he will usually let the clip-
pings lie where they fall to form
a bit of protecting mulch.
In the flower and vegetable
garden, even if no weeds have
been allowed to grow, he will
continue a light cultivation once
a week or every ten days, to
create what is known as a dust
mulch which will prevent
evaporation of moisture from
the soil.
Before going on holidays it
is an excellent plan to go over
flower and vegetable gardens
lightly with grass clippings or
similar material to conserve• the
moisture. If necessary and pos-
sible one should water thorough-
ly the night before the final pre -
holiday cultivation:
Still Time
There is still time for a show
of flowers and a fine yield of
vegetables. In fact one can go
on sowing all sorts of seeds and
setting out plants right up to
July in many parts of Canada
and still get good results, With .a
bit of luck in the weather, mostly
in the way of showers, growth is
very rapid during the extraor-
dinarly long hours of sunlight
we have in June. To catch up
experienced gardeners will use a
little extra • care with these late
started gardens. They will make
sure the soil is well cultivated
and enriched where at all pos-
sible with chemical fertilizer or
manure. They will thin seed-
lings to give them plenty of room.
With certain flowers and veg-
etables that require a long sea-
son to bloom or mature they
will use well .star t ed plants,
watering carefully and perhaps
shading from the hot sun for a
few clays after they are set out.
HOLLYWOOD
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Gad! But Hollywood is a godly
towel' It's 7 to 3 .if you live there
you have never been divorced,
and 2 in 19 you have never been
drunk, and 3 to 10 you don't
smoke.
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tVby de dog sled .driverty yrllt
It's a vermilion of a French
word, French»Canadian deivei"a
starting up their teams yelled '
"Nlarchant"-"Let's g q" Enge
lish-spealcing drivers naturally:
anglicized ha it became "'Musks
on," and then just plain "Mush,''
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V1'hy (foes paper rani brown
with ago?
It's dol,lg a "slow burr." -the
chemists Call it oxidati.pn. When
oxygen combines with 'another
material at a very rapid rate-
as in the gasoline engine --an
explosion.oceurs, When the rate
is slower, burning, results, and
when it's very slow ---oxidation,.
as in thecase of aging paper.
Who make the best drivers-
intelligent persons or morons?
Morons. Tragic experts say
that the smarter you are, the
less likely you are to be n first-
rate drivel. You simply don't
give enough attention to the
business of driving, Your mind
is too 'restless, forever straying
off to other matters, But a moron
with a mental age of 10 to 12.
once taught to drive properly,
will usually stick to the rules of
good driving. He gives all of his
attention to it.
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Why is the phrase "of the first
water" used to indicate top rank?
Originally, the phrase belong-
ed to the gemologists. The flues*
and most valuable stones are
colorless, and years ago, the
gem experts used to test uncut
stones by immersing them in
water. The colorless ones natu-
rally were invisible. These were
called stones of the first water
The ones with color in them
were graded as stonesof the
second water, stones of the, third
water, and so on.
Why' does the lullMoonlook
larger on the horizon than it
does overhead?
Scientists have been hunting
for the answer to this illusion for
20 centuries: The horizon moon
should, if anything, look smaller
-it's 4,000 miles or 80 farther
away than the overhead moon.
Yet it always looks bigger. Nor
does the one "explanation'sci-
entists have conte up with so
far -that we observe the moon
in relation to familiar objects
nearby -hold• water with many
of their own number. The skep-
tics point out that the illusion
persists even over the sea, when
there are no objects at alnear-
by. The fact is, they sadly ad-
mit, there is DO . adequate ex
planation. However, for your
own amusement (and the prob-
able puzzlement of your neigh-
bors), here are a few simple ex-
periments suggested by . psy-
chologists at Harvard to show
that the illusion is really an
illusion: Try "pinching" the
horizon noon between your
forefinger and thiimb. It imme-
diately shrinks. Look at it
through 'a tube, and the same
thing happens. And if you're an
uninhibited type, turn your
back, bend over, and peer at the
moon through your legs. Again,
it has shrunk to its "proper" size
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One package (3'our)ceS) cream cheese, 1 to
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candy -coated
Form cheese )into bads"and roll in cereal. Serve with pineapple,
orange, tar other ittllisaladS, For an attractive salad, center 2 or
3 crispy eheese'b£ils'°oii lettuce or other soled greens, Arrange
'fruit sections in swirls around the cheese balls.
BUTTERMILK COLE SLAW
Shred a head of crisp cabbage very thin. Theft since thin 2 small
onions, 5 pr 6 stuffed green olives, and add with 19 capers to the
'cabbage, Salt to taste.
Dressing: Use 1 team:ton salt, pepper to taste, 1/4 teaspoon
ipaprlka, a very little curry powder, 1 teaspoon caper juice, 1 tea-
, spoon Worcestershire sauce, and is cup mayonnaise. Next add
just enough unt
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and salad
TOSSED MACARONI SALAD WITH BLEU -CHEESE DRESSING
(Makes 6 servings)
One tablespoon salt, 3 quarts boiling water, 8 ounces elbow
macaroni (2 cups), VS medium-sized head lettuce, shredded, 1/a
bunch chicory, broken In pieces, 2 medium-sized tomatoes, cut in
wedges, 2 tablespoons chopped onion, 11 cup chopped celery, 1
green pepper, 'cut in thin strips, 11/4 -ounce package bleu cheese, -
2 tablespoons vinegar, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 1/4 cup salad oil,
1 teaspoon meat sauce, 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt, 11/4 teaspoons salt,
4/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper, dash paprika.
Add 1 tablespoon salt to rapidly boiling water. Gradually add
macaroni so that water continues to boil, Cook uncovered. stirring
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These crispy cheese balls will turn any kind of fruit salad into
a main dish for an attractive summer n1eat
occasionally, until tender. Drain in colander. Rinse with cold
water and drain again. Chill. In a large salad bowl, combine
chilled macaroni, lettuce, chicory, tomato wedges, onion, celery and
green pepper; toss lightly but thoroughly.
Chill. Crumble bleu cheese. In a small bowl, combine bleu
cheese and remaining ingredients; mix thoroughly. Add bleu
cheese dressing to chilled salad; mix lightly but thoroughly.
NAY SC 1001,
LESSO
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Principles of Christian
Stewardship
2 Corinthians 9
Memory Selection: Every man
according as he purposeth in his
*heart, so Id him give; not grudg-
ingly, or of necessity, for God
loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Corin-
thians 9:7.
`The church is often criticized
because of its frequent appeals
for money, But how little the
church receivescomparedwith
what is spent for liquor and to-
bacco! The Anglican Council for
Social Service in its report to the
General Synod last November
estimated that the costs and loss-
es of drinking in Canada for the
10 -year period was $4,586,273,000.
.Of this $1,922,233,000 went to the
provinces and Dentinion, govern-
ment as re$iedtie, 'leaving a net
cost to the people of $2,564,040,-
000. We believe the churches
use the comparatively insignifi-
cant amount which they receive
for more worthwhile purposes
hi the instance of our lesson
Paul was appealing for a good
offering for the needy Christians
at Jerusalem. The poor people
of Macedonia had responded
most generously. They first gave
themselves to the Lord, What
would the church at rich Cor-
inth do? Paul had predicted well
of them but yte ' sent Titus in ad-
vance just in case they had ne-
glected -to respond to this appeal.
In .his exhortation he • cited the
greatest example of giving: "Ye
know the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that, though he was
rich, yet for your sakes he be-
came poor, that ye through his
poverty might be rich."
Someone has suggested that
there are five levels of giving.
1. The "Tip" leve]- Those who
give a small coin to the Lord,
the same way that they tip the
waitress. It is just a little mat-
ter of appreciation for the Lord.
2. T h e Entertainment" level -
those who refuse to pledge and
give only when they come to
church. They give as they give
to a theatre, or the ball game.
They give when they go. 3. The
"Emotional" level- those who
give only when they are emo-
tionally stirred. They refuse to
give when Iheir feelings are
hurt. They may give (mac or
twice a year according to feel -
lege, 4. The "Promise" level -
Those who pledge but neglect
the promise. They never or sei-
doln pay up. 5. The "Bible"
level- those who give systemati-
cally and proportionately. Here
is cheerful, joyous, regular giv-
ing, week by week- both to their
local church needs and to the
wider work of the church. God
toed the ehoerful giver.
When a clothing salesman says
to you, "We'll justtake the
shoulders in a little and you'll
look like a million bucks," that':
propaganda. And if ypu be-
lieve hila the chances arc your
income is pretty low became low
income groups are much more
susceptible to propaganda
According to the late ll'ranktisl
Delaeo Roose'velt's National Re-
sources Committee, p001110 1n low
income groups are alrnnst even
odds to be duped by propaganda
The odds drop until they reach
the high 'earning flower group
where the chances are almost
20 to 1 they Won't believe what
they hear or read when it's
propaganda or ballyhoo.
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Blind Spot Spotters -Acting on the premise that color blindness
is affected by abnormal conditions of the optic nerve, two
William Smith College coeds, Helen Gardner, at left, and Teresa
Mondy, map the color fields of professor Shelton MacLeod. They
discovered color blindness is accompanied by irregularly shaped
blind spots.
TIE FARM FROM
tg�J`o' 1 1.uss-el.l.
A lot of folks will tell you
that sheep ruin a pasture for
cattle because they "Graze it
down to the' roots -and below."
I have always contended that
more often than not the fault
lies with the poorness of the
pasture -or else that too many
sheep are grazed for the size of.
it. This contention is borne out
by the Department of Agricul-
ture at Ottawa,
Here,is their dope.
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Pasture areas improved by re-
seeding and fertilizing can be
kept in good condition and better
returns secured from them by
grazing with mixed sheep and
cattle than by sheep or cattle
alone, judging by the average
of seven years' results at the
Central Experimental Farm in
Ottawa.
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This seven - year experiment
showed that a pasture treated
with 10 tons of Manure pee acre
every four years, and grazed
with both sheep and cattle, had
a carrying capacity 23 per cent
greater than an adjoining field
given a similar application at
manure but grazed with sheep
alone. Compared with another
adjoining field of permanent pas-
ture, receiving .no manure and
grazed by sheep alone, the in
crease was 50 per• cent.
On a fourth adjacent. field, not
manured but fertilized with 100
Pounds of sulphate of ammonia
per acre each year plus 300
pounds or superphosphate and
75 pounds of muriate of potash
applied every four years, mixed
grazing gave an increase, of 4.4
per cent over the immured field
grazed with sheep alone; 6.6 per
cent over a similarly fertilized
Held, grazed with steers alone,
and 74 per cent more than the
untreated field.
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Each at these fields consisted
of four acres, In terms of actual
meet produced, the untl Baled
field showed 159 pounds average
yearly gain in weight by the
sheep grazed on it. The manured
field grazed by sheep alone pro-
duced a gam of 192 pounds. The
manured Hgrazed h d iv sheep
acid cattle. in educed a gain of
126 pounds for the sheep and 145
pounds for 1110 steers. The fer-
tilized field produce a gain of
152 pounds for the sheep turd
165 pounds tor the steers. A field
given the same fertilizer treat-
ment and grand by steers alone
produced a gain of 248 pounds
for the steers, still below either
of the mixed -grazed fields in
total meat production. All gains
are based on 150 days of graz-
ing.
P. E. Sylvestre and S. B. Wil-
liams, of the Animal Husbandry
Division at the Farm, state:
"Grazing with cattle and sheep
resulted in a definite increase
over grazing with sheep alone.
This was not only due to ihr
greater number of stock carried
on that pasture but also to the
higher daily gains of the lambs
in the mixed -grazed fields. There
was a better utilization of the
grass available. Little of the
herbage was noticed going to
seed in the mixed grazed fields,
while there was considerable
waste on that account in the
fields grazed by sheep alone. Thus
the nixed -grazed fields- did not
require clipping. The quality- of
that sward was also improved.
The mixture of clovers and
grasses was considered almost
ideal in the mixed -grazed fields
while there was little improve-
ment in the others.
"A certain amount of care
must be exercised, however, in
the proportion of sheep to cattle
Three ewes and their lambo to
one two-year-old steer Lave ex-
cellent results."
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Considerable interest has arisen
in recent years in the possibilities
of chemical thinning 04 tree
fruits, particularly apples. h1
vestigations are being carried
on at Ottawa and et various
branch stations. At Surnmerland
the sodium salt of dinitro firth()
cresol and certain hormone ma
terials have been reasonably of
fective. The standard method of
applying these sprays has been
with the conventional sprayer
and hand spray guns. Using this
method, about 1.5 pints of sodium
dinitro eresolate per 100 gallono
of water are applied to the tree
the full -bloom stage as a drench-
ing spray. Tests have also shown
that apples ran be thinned Mid'
as effectively with enncontiate as
with hand sprayers, and that the
amount of sodium dinitro creno
late required is approximately
15 pints per acre. This, diluted
with 100 gallons of water, givoo
an application of about two gal.
Ions per tree. Using a hormone
spray of alpha naplllhaleue acetic'
acid, 73 grants of hormone pet
atht.t ig eo•- i
acre gave . 5 t ty (r,stotn..
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Difficulties arise. *however, in
the use of 81101(1 chemicals, The
dinitros are caustic and burn the
floral parte and loaves severely,
while the hormone spray may
cause severe distorilion and
dwarfing 01 the foliage. Recent
reports indicate that delayed ap-
plications of hormones up to
four weeks beyond the calyx
stage would reduce this injury.
Investigations are under way at
Ottawa to determine whether
delayed sprays will reduce the
injuries arising from these
sprays, and at the same time
give elieetive thinning" of the
fruit. Results so far, indicate that
with certain of the hormones, at
least, delayed spraying is a pos-
sibility.
The Vast Amazon
The Sea River (Amazon) has
eleven hundred known tributar-
ies. Ten of them are larger than
the Rhine. Seven are a thousand
miles long. The Madeira is three
thousand miles long and collects
ninety tributaries of its own be-
fore it joins the Amazon. Stand-
ing where they join you can
just make out the other shore
of the Madeira but you cannot
see across the Amazon. , .
Place the mouth of the Ama-
zon at New York and its arms
would reach up into Canada and
down into Mexico and almost to
California, Straighten out the
kinks, and the smaller end would
stretch twelve hundred miles
ottt into the Pacific, (It seems
unbelievable, but figure it• for
yourself. The breadth of the con-
tinent is twenty-eight hundred
miles; the Iength of the Ama-
zon, according to corrected sur-
veys, a little over four thousand
miles.)
All Europe could be placed
within the Amazon basin and
have room left for half a dozen
Japans.
The Amazon is not satisfied
with Brazil. It 'sends its feelers
far up into Bolivia, Peru, Ecua-
dor, Colombia and Venezuela and
the Amazon basin includes gen-
erous portions of these nations.
The sources of the great river
are - high Andean lakes only
eighty...miles from the Pacific.
coast, - From "The. Amazing
Amazon," by Willard Price.
ILLITERACY
If you live on this planet, it's
3 to 2 you are illiterate. There
are 1,200,000,000 totally illiterate
people its the world.
view Mercantile
Bank , Acquires
Property
The, Mercantile Hank of Cana-
da, chartered by Act of Parlia-
ment Cat Marchi 31, 1003. has aa-
quired the Hanson Building, 208 -
81, James Street West, as temper -
gay Bead .Offices and banking
quarters,
Tl1e bank has also bought land
and buildings on the north-west
corner of St, ,fames Street and
Victoria Square, where it wilt
erect a modern head ofllice build•
ing at .a future date.
The announcement of these
property purchases was made by.
Mr, Henri Moquette, in behalf of .
the Mercantile Bank's provisional
directorate,
The provisional Canadian dir.
eetors are Senator P. H, Bouffard
of Quebec, and the Messrs. Ax -
thin' Cross, Montreal industrl-
alist, and .1. B. Carswell, promin-
ent consulting engineer of Van-
couver,
The Victoria Square site, occu,
pying a frontage of 177 feet on the
Square and 130 feet on St. Samoa
Street, is at present occupied
by several buildings, the largest
of which is known as Dale House
and was formerly the head office
building of the Dominion Textile
Company,
When the site becomes avail-
able on the expiration of leases;
the first unlit of the Mercantile
Bank's Head Office building will
be constructed there. Plan for
this unit, and for subsequent ad-
ditions which will cover the entire
ground area, have been drawn by
Messrs. Lawson and Betts, Archi-
tects, of Montreal.
During the interval before the
new building is erected, the. Mer-
cantile Bank will utilize the Han-
son Building as Head Office pretn-
ises, and the main banking office
will open for business as soon as
occupation can be secured and in-
terior alterations made.
The Mercantile Bank of Canada
is the first bank to receive a
charter from the Canadian gov-
ernment since 1929. Capital for
its issue of shares has mainly been
subscribed by the Nationale Ilan-
dlesbank N. V. of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, of which Mr. Henri
Moquette is a Managing Director.
Three Canadians and tWb nomi-
nees of the Handlesbank will
comprise the original Board of
the Mercantile Bank.
Mr. Moquette also announces
the purchase by the 'Mercantile
Bank of a property on Burrard
Street in downtown Vancouver,
where building operations will
commence within sixty days.
Other branches will subsequently
be opened in principal Canadian
cities, -
The Mercantile Bank of Canada
will conduct a complete domestic
banking service in Canada, and
will also specialize in the Pacific
trade, through the widespread
facilities of Handlesbank.
These facilities include branches
in Japan, India, Thailand, Hong
Kong and Singapore, and through-
out Indonesia, as well as in such
Netherlands centres as Amster-
dam, Rotterdam and The Hague.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
Handy -Cycle -- french inventor Charles Duval, above, thinks
he's solved a big problem for cyclists, He claims that leg•
muscle strain can be eased by switching to hand pedals which
he has mounted on - his bike's handlebars. Or, if you prefer
to make a jet, you can use both hand and fool pedals to
increase your speed. The gadget is one of many shown at
the annual inventors' exhibit in Paris,