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EDITOR'S NOTE: Because of
a mix-up in the malls, lastweek's
copy for CHRONICLES OF
GINGER FARM did not reach us
in time for inclusion in that is-
sue. Knowing the widespread in-
terest in Mrs. Claarice's chronicle
of life on an Ontario farm, this
weelc we are publishing both In-
stalments,
Another week of unusually
warm, fine weather for October
— and the end is not yet in sight,
neither rain nor Gold weather be-
ing in the offing. Yes, this Weath-
er is very beautiful but unfor-
tunately very dry .- too dry for
fail wheat, already sown, b u t
badly in need of rain; too dry
for fall ploughing and certainly
too dry for close -cropped cow
pastures. But it isn't too dry for
the motoring public., D e e and
Arthur were here yesterday and
they said the highways were just
as crowded as they had been all
summer. So I suppose we shall
hear of another series of fatal
accidents giving us one more rea-
son to speak of Monday as "blue
Monday" — or would it be bet-
ter to re - name it "mourning
Monday?"
I was in Toronto last Thursday
and as I drove along the Dundas
in rather heavy traffic I began.
thinking of accidents and why
they happen. I thought to my-
self, now here am I, driving along
at a reasonable speed — 45 to 50
m.p,h. — taking no chances, and
yet I could quite easily be the
victim of a fatal accident through
no fault of my own. Drivers with
more experience that I have told
me to watch the fellow ahead„
never mind the traffic behind —
unless it is necessary to brake
suddenly or to make a left-hand
turn. But as I drove along I real-
ized to watch the driver ahead
was not enough, it was also vital-
ly necessary to keep a wary eye
on the oncoming traffic. It is the
driver in the other traffic lane
who may cause a head-on colli-
sion. I began to take note of
hazardous conditions. This was
danger signal No. 1. If a long
line of vehicles is approaching
headed by a truck or tractor -
trailer, watch out. You can be
absolutely sure one of the trail-
ing cars is looking for an oppor-
tunity to pull out and overtake
the truck or tractor. If he Is too
impatient, or misjudges the speed
of other vehicles on the road, the
chances are good for a head-on
collision even though the other
party concerned may be the most
careful driver on the road —
unless be is on the alert for just
such an eventuality. Three times
in a ten -mile stretch I saw a
driver following a truck edge out
to get by and each time he
thought better of it and got back
inline — otherwise I might not
be writing this now.
Danger signal No. 2 was slow
moving farm tractors. Their num-
ber is definitely on the increase,
so I was naturally interested in
hearing over the air that the
time may be coming when farm
tractors will be licenced Farm-
ers won't welcome that day but
yet such a measure seems to me
perfectly logical. Quite a few
tractors are used in the place
of cars or trucks. During the win-
ter a farmer will use his tractor
to get chop from the mill Or he
will hitch up the trailer t0 bring
home the weeks groceries. Mar-
ket gardeners are frequently on
the road with their produce. Dur-
ing the growing season +,rectors
are used to draw machinery from
one farm to another, or see far-
mer may buy hay from 'another
and take home a load of bales
behind the tractor, Farmers have
even been known to use a fractor
for getting to church!
Blood Deposit at Teller's Window ,— Here's q Mood bank that
resembles the kind of bank that handles money. Keeping deposits
equal to withdrawals Is the main object of this. Hanoi, ,Indo-
China, blood bank. It is equipped with a teller'swindow to which
depositors ;are directed. Here, a teller takes blood from a
depositor who has hi's arm through the opening,
Not so many years ago farm
tractors were on steel wheels.
They were noisy, cumbersome
things to handle and their use,
because of the steel lugs, was
prohibited on the highways. Now
nearly all tractors have rubber
tires and are almost as mobile
as a car,
Taking all these things into
consideration — the mobility of
tractors; increase in number and
use and the fact that their pre-
sence on the road is an addi-
tional hazard to the motoring
public, isn't it therefore logical
that tractors should be licenced?
Nor is that all. If tractors are
licenced then liability insurance
would surely follow — as a pro-
tection for the farmer and the
public, It will be tough on the
farmer who never puts his trac-
tor on the road but then, wouldn't
that be one more instance of the
high cost of modern farming?
Now I can imagine a good many
farmers will see "red" because
of my remarks. But remember
we have a tractor too; we don't
want to pay a licence either but
there is such a thing as moving
with the times. Horse and buggy
days are far behind but new cus-
toms, new privileges bring with
them new obligations — and more
expense. We get what we pay
for — or we pay for what we
get, whichever way you like to
put it. If a farmer keeps s tractor
and wants to drive it on the high-
way — well, isn't the conclusion
obvious?
Licensing tractors would have
one bright spot anyway With a
licence the farmer and his trac-
tor would have as much right on
the highways and byways as a
motorist. At present he is re-
garded as an intruder, especially
when involved in an accident.
It is very quiet around here
now—quiet and unusually peace-
ful. The reason? Daughter came
out a few days ago to collect
her kitten and then, when she
saw the two kittens having such
a grand time together, she
thought, just as I did when I
first got them, it would be a
shame to part them. So the two
little kittens are now in Toronto
and I really miss them as Mitchie-
White and the kittens had had
suddenly become very friendly,
eating from the same dish and
playing together without so
much as a swear -word between
them. I had occasion to phone
Dee yesterday and the first
thing she said was: "I had been
wondering when you would be
phoning to inquire for the kit-
tens!" Now we have only Mitchie-
White and Black Joe—and Part-
ner says Mitchie might "turn up
missing" any time as he is a
great hunter, roaming the fields
in search of—well, whatever it
is cats hunt for. Hunters also
roam our fields and occasionally
set traps along the creek so we
Orioles Are Coming — Construction work begins to enlarge
Mernarial Stadium in Baltimore, future home of the Baltimore
Orioles, The St, Louis Brown's Franchise was recently transferred
to Baltimore ownership following Bill Veeck's decision to sell his
stock hi the club. Crowd pictured above gathered In the stadium
to watch Navy's eleven trounce Cornell, 26-6,
are dreadfully afraid that curi-
osity may lead to Mitchie get
ting caught in a steel trap. We
are never too happy when'hun-
ters are around, with either
traps or guns. Last winter some
of our young stock spent a few
hours almost every day out in
the fields and the firing of a gun
always filled us with uneasiness,
so much so that Partner general-
ly ended up with tramping the
fields until he could see the
heifers and thus be assured of
their safety. If hunters would
only walk up the lane and ask
permission to cross the fields it
would not be so bad; we could
warn them if a few head of
cattle were at the back of the
farm. But no, hunters come in
from the road by climbing the
fence and the only warning we
have of their presence is when
the dog barks—but the dog has
no way of telling hunters to
watch for young cattle.
Well, it is cloudy this morning
and I 'suppose, for various reas-
ons, we are all wondering the
same thing—is there a definite
break coining in this long' spell
of warm,' fine weather? So dry,
... everything so terribly dry—
and quite a number Of farmers
are buying water. And yet, go
down town and everywhere you
go you hear the same thing,
Isn't this glorious weather?"
Not wanting to appear churlish
or he dubbed a wet blanket, you
probably agree, as I do — and
without too much annoyance, be-
cause, after all, you can't ex-
pect town folk to know any bet-
ter. To all intents and purposes
it IS beautiful. weather. But if
you hapen to turn on the radio
first thing in the morning and
a FARM commentator comes on
and says—"Well, it looks like an-
other wonderful day coining up
wonderful weather for this
time of the year!" Well, I must
confess that a remark like that
on a farm broadcast makes me
see red. If a farm commentator
hasn't the right 'slant on weather
conditions as they affect the
farmer, what is he doing on a
farm broadcast? I quite agree it
is wonderful weather for those
who have town water on tap, but
farmers are not in that category.
Unfortunately wells and creeks
have a way of running dry; pas-
tures are denuded of moisture;
cows go down in their milk and
milk cheques and cream cheques
drop accordingly.
But still we have much to be
thankful for. Even if we haven't
had any rain neither have we
had any frost—not real killing
frost. Surplus geraniums that I
decided to leave outside rare still
bloorning—as are the' petunias,
pansies and dandelions. It is nice
to see bloom so late in the sea-
son.
And here is something else I
have noticed --whether it has any
connection with the warm spell'
I don't know. The fact is we are
getting an increasing number of
transient callers from week to
week.
Last week we had three men,
each with a different outfit,
wanting to paint the barn roof.
Another wanted to whitewash
the stables. Two truckers came
in peddling potatoes; two agents
soliciting orders fhr mineral feed
and, of course, the usual run of
real estate agents and insurance
agents. We even bad a man in
looking for work an a farm!
That, I think, should be one for
the "believe it or not" cartoons.
All these callers looking for an
order, in some form or other
make me think of the depression
clays when so many men, desper-
ately in need of work, went
from Diem to farm. Very few
farmers meld afford to hire
them but at least many of them
were given a free meal. liow-
ever, there is a big difference
between now and then. In the
old days men rame on foot and
were poorly clad. Now they
come in late model cars and look
more prosperous than the farm-
ers amen whom they call. And it
is well fur the farmer to be MIT -
with whom he deals,
Just What Is The
Perfect Figure?
"Ilinsmell She is more beard,
fill than .- than the great god-
dess of love herself,"
The two men stood In the de-
serted hall 0f the half -ruined
palazzo; the dark and volatile
Italian; the stout man frons Ber-
lin,
"In my nuttily," exclaimed the
Italian, excitedly, "the legend of
this divine figure is that she was
Wrought by a, Greek pupil of the
incomparable Praxiteles, a pupil
who was greater than the mas.
ter."
The German moved about the
base of the white figure, speech-
less in admiration,
"And you say, Signor, that you
wish to sell?"
"No, fro!e' protested the Italian.
"It is that I must. You see for
your self the ruin of my ances-
tral home,' You have walked. , in
the neglected and overgrown
garden. Itis that I must sell"
'And I; must buyt" declared
the German. "There can be no-
thing more perfect than this in"
the whole world. My friend,here
is a work of art more lovelythan
the Venus de Milo herself!"
A dialogue very much like that
took place nearly 200 years ago
in a neglected palace near Rome.
The German drove a hard bar-
gain. But when his coach set out
some days later for Berlin,. 1t
was followed by a heavy wagon
on which, swathed in straw and
canvas, lay the work of art that
seemed then a miracle wrought
in the cold austerity of white
marble. And seems so, still!
For many years this mystery
Venus, or Aphrodite, adorned the
mansion of the rich German. But
families, like empires, rise and
fall. Somehow, in the following
generations the Unnamed Venus
was lost sight of. For years she
ray, unseen by human eye, for-
gotten
Then, by chance, she was
found. This time it was an Ame-
rican who responded to the thrill.
Venus, this Venus, whose
birth -place was not the foam of
the blue sea but the workshop
of a forgotten Greek genius, some
2,000 years ago, was shipped to
New York.
' And there, just recently, her
classic beauty, her pure perfec-
tion, was revealed once more.
Visitors came in their thou-
sands to the New York Musetam
of Art. They stood in awe. And
they asked: Is she the loveliest of
them all?
The world title in the "Love-
liest Woman" Stakes had been
held for many years by the Ve-
nus de Milo. She is in the same
tradition as the newly -discov-
ered fasterpiece. She portrays
the same ideal of perfect woman-
hood that prevailed in ancient
Greece.
How does that ideal correspond
with our idea of feminine beau-
ty?
Take, first, the actual measure-
ments.
Bust 35,2 inches.
Waist 28 inches.
Hips 3644 inches.
By modern standards these are
a bit on the heavy side.
The ideal proportions of the
female' form are sometimes con-
sidered as divisible into fifteen
parts, the proportions regarded
as ideal being as follows:
The head 2; the bust 2; bust
to abdomen 2; umbilicus to fork
of legs 2; fork of Iegs to knee 2;
knee to mid -shin 2; mid -shin to
ankle 2; ankle to sole of foot 1.
After proportions come the
functional qualities; the. mus-
cles, the distribution of fat, the
firmness of the flesh.
So we get the obvious next
question: When is a woman at
her loveliest?
The answer is: when her mus-
cles are fully developed, but not
overdeveloped; when her flesh As
fresh and fires; and the fat
neither excessive nor deficient -
and distributed without local
stresses. t
And, say the experts and
teachers of the anatomy of art,
a woman is most likely to
achieve this moment in time of
physical bdauty before her
twenty-fourth year,
LOVE WHEEL
FIND A WAY
Romance blooms in some odd
spots, and a new hunting ground
for Cupid was found in the seat
of a stalled giant wheel at the
Anawalt carnival, Lucille Hicks
was enjoying her whirling 'trip
round and round until the ma-
chine driv+fng the big wheel stall-
ed and Lucille was suspended In
her seat at the top, A carnival
worker gallantly climbed up the'
framework of the construction
and carried her down,
All this happened just a year
ago. Now this modern Sir Gala-
had and his erstwhile maiden in
distress are to be married. And
the marriage will take plate in
the seat of one of the cars as it
is whirled rdund by the giant
wheal.
To keep frost from forming on
windows this winter rub the in-
side of the panes with a solu-
tiOn of one ounce glycerine to
one pint of rubbing alcohol.
Over .in Europe, and especially
in the more Southern Countries,
they go in for meat -stuffed vege-
tables 10 a far greater extent
than we do here. Which is ra-
ther a pity, as such dishes give
a touch of variety to your meals,
as well as being very flavourful
and nourishing.
Se why not try out some of
the very fine recipes that follow?
CUCUMBERS WITH TUNA
FISH
4 cucumbers,. about .6". long
1' 7 -ounce can tuna, flaked
2 teaspoons gt.'ated onion
14, cup Chopped celery
, 34 cup bread crumbs, torn from
from soft bread slices
6 tablespoons:mayonnaise
2 tablespoons lemon juice
34 teaspoon salt
44 teaspdbn pepper
2 tablespoons butter
or margarine •
Ahead of time -Steps: Cut a
thin lengthwise slice, from one
side of each cucumber; discard
slices:' Boil cucumbers in salted
water to cover 19 minutes. Re-
move from water, cool a few
minutes. Scoop out pulp and
save, Do not break shells,
Drain shells and sprinkle insides
with salt. Chop cucumber pulp
and drain Off juice. Combine
with tuna, onion, celery, Si cup
bread crumbs, mayonnaise, lemon
juice, salt and pepper. Spoon
mixture into shells. Sprinkle
with remaining bread crumbs;
' dot with butter: Place in a shal-
low 8" or 9" greased baking dish.
Cover. Store dish in refrigera-
tor.
About 30 minutes before serv-
ing: Pour about Si cup water
into baking dish, Bake uncover-
ed in ' moderately hot oven,
375°3'., until browned, 'Wakes
4 servings.
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BEEF -FILLED BERMUDA
ONIONS
6 medium -large sweet onions
2 tablespoons butter or
margarine
1/4. cup coarsely' chopped
green pepper
1 pound ground chuck beef
1 cup bread crumbs, torn
from soft bread slices
1 teaspoon salt
34 teaspoon pepper
44 teaspoon 'basil
13 cups tomato juice
1 tablespoon brown sugar
Ahead of time steps: Peel
onions carefully to preserve
shape. Boil in salted water to
cover for 15 minutes, Drain
and cool•a few minutes. COI a
slice 44" thick from the top of
each onion and cut out centers
(Leftovers niay be used later
for creamed onions or some other
cooked dish.) Melt butter in :a
skillet; add greeen pepper and
cook overe low heat 3 minutes
or until soft. Add beeek; separ-
ate with a fork. Cook about 5
minutes or until soft. Combine
pepper -meat mixture with bread
crumbs, salt, pepper and basil.
Spoon into onion cups. Place in
an 8" or 9" round baking dish.
Mix tomati juice and sugar; pour
over onions. Cover. Store bak-
ing dish in refrigerator.
About 45 minutes before serv-
ing: Bake stuffed onions in
covered baking dish in a moder-
ately hot oven, 375°F. Baste
3 or 4' times with the tomato
juice in dish, Makes 6 servings.
8 * e
ACORN SQUASH AND SAU-
SAGE
1 lalrge acorn squash ...
about 2 pounds
4.1 teaspoon salt
Dash of 14'6'peer
1 tablespoon butter or
margarine
1 teaspoon grated onion
teaspoon rrlr.tmeg
I ogy, slightly beaten
1.t.4a pounds ,sausage steat
Ahead of time steps: Cut
squash in halves lengthwise, 10 -
move seeds and stringy portion.
Place eut side dawn on a rack
in a shallow baking Pani add
about 34 cup water, Bake In a
hot oven, 400°F„ until just
tender, about 30 minutes. Re-
move from oven, cool a few min-
utes, Scoop out pulp without
piercing shells. Mash pulp; add
salt, .pepper, butter, onion, nut-
meg and egg, Whip until fluffy,
Spoon into shells around 's!det,
Shape sausage into 1" balls. Fry
in a skillet over moderate heat
until lightly browned. Drain.
Place the squash -filled shells in
a greased baking dish, Fill can-
ters with sausage balls. Cover.
Store baking dish in refrigerator.
About 20 minutes before serv-
ing: Bake stuffed squash in un-
covered dish in a moderately
hot oven, 375°F., until squash
is heated and :lightly browned.
Makes 4 servings.
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