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Custom Of
Bridal Veil Traced
To Ancient Rite
The aneleet custom of veilifig a
bride was one a triok to mislead
mischievous. demons,
Thus Pro'fe'ssor Ludwig Deubner,
of the Berlin university, eap'lains
bridal veils, which in ancient times
were more enveloping aud, mySter-
ions than the airy veil of a modern
bride,
Fear of demons, it atppeans, Plag-
ued the ancient Greeks in a fashion
reminiscent of she fairy tale fear of
the wicked fairy who always turned
up for 'trouble at weddings and
christenings.
Describing leingths to watch wed-
ding mettles' evwuld go to foil de-
mons. It ie .said that brides in Spar-
ta were dressed in men's clothing.
The Sparta maid, dressed jurat like a
man and with her hair shorn,.; was
shut up in a dark room to await
her bridegroom's arrival and a dra-
matic rescue,
Professor Deubaer finds evidence
that Greek marriage ous'.ome are
related. to customs of other Indo-
Germanic Aryan peapllse, and some
can still be found surviving in parts
of Greece.
DesicribIng ancient Greek wed-
dings, Professor Denrhner ,stated
that as marriages were arranged by
the parents, the •couple -to -be were
not consulted and often became ac-
quainted only atter they were wed.
'The popular month for weddings
corresponded to late January and
early February in our calendar. The
bride sacrificed her hair, her gdrdle
and her toys et' the altar of Artemis.
Coressponding to a modern church
wedding 'r -as a sacrifice rite to the
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Blankets Contributed
By Wroxeter Institute
1
l The .regular monthly meeting of
the Women's Iustled@ was held at
1 the home of Mrs. Sawtell on Thurs-
day afternoon with the president,
Mrs. H. Walker in the chair. The
roll call was answered by 'My limp-
lest hone remedy" and brought
many interesting replies, •Current
1 events were in charge of Mrs; Mc-
Lean. The guest speaker for the
afternoon was Mrs. .1. 11. 'Crawford i
of Wingham who gave a very in- 1
sltr untive topic on ''Nursing' 'with
many "do's and don'ts" for the sick ,
room, There was also a lengthy
discussion on making a quilt for the
refugees' and it was finally decided
that each m'e'mber should anake a
block and bring in by -end of dune.
Thds, Is to be quilted at the nett
meeting. A delicious lunch was
served by the bostess assisted by
Mars, Munro, Mrs. 1'. Sanderson and
Miers Fox, A vote of rtha.nks was
tendered) the speaker and the hoet-
ese by Mrs. Ven Pelsor, The Insti-
tute also decided to pay for levo
pairs of blankets for the Red Crosti.
Two large boxes of clothing were
Packed on Thursday evening by
the Women's Missionary Society of
1 goddess Hera. During the wedding
banquet the bridegrooun removed
the bride's bell. Wedding gifts went
by a name' meaning unveiling, be-
cause they were received atter the
removal of the velil.
Guests accompanied he coigne
to their home and threw okl shoes
to ward off evil, The groom lifted
his beide from the cant in which
they rode, and she — like ancient
Oeernan brides'— Walked 'thrice a-
round the health -fire 'in token of
her entrance to a new family.
THE BRUSSELS POST
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the 'United ohatr'ela. to be sent , Mother Shipton's
Prophecies
ear teem Centela,
63 Blankets Given
Timm hes a response of 63 blan-
kets in answerto the appeal fel•
aw,me from the people of the town
and surrounding country, "These
were packed on Thursday night.
The east of the "Minstrel Show"
also contributed $$'6 towards the
oar: Oso of blankets,.
JESTED RECIPES
Lemon Hurter
'Crease
1 cup sugar
14 Petted butter. Add
Cleated .skin of 1 lemon
4 Itdtbleepoons wetter .
Juice and pulp of two !mous,
Mix well Add
1 egg, Beat mixture, Then boil in
saucepan or doublt boiler about
'35 minutes. It thickens, after
cooling,
'Spread on toast for breakfast • or
tea.,
Molasses 'Crumb 'Pie
Line two pie pans with pastry
Rub the following wixtus'e 1n the
fingers, or with pastry blender, un-
til fluffy:
'3 cup flour
1 cusp sugar
1 cusp shortening
1 teaspoon, oinnemon
Mix
1,4 cup Ne'w Orleans molasses'
154 cups water
r/ teaspoon baking soda. Pour
this molasses mixture into the
lined pie pans and sprinkle with
'the 'cnunebis of the first mixture.
Bake in mtoderwte oven (375
degrees F,) about 45 minutes,
or until firma when shaken.
Potato Salad
'Cut small and mix
Boiled Potatoes.
'Oucuuniber
'Celery
'Stuffed olives
;Sweet pickle. ust before serving,
cut
Sliced bacon into tiny squares
and fry until crisp, pouring off
bacon grease as 5t acenmulates.
Sprinkle bacon squares through-
out salad and add,
Mayonnaise.
►�RCOIF
S ON
The demands of our Country and Empire, occasioned by another Great War, cause us
to pause and recount the progress made in the quarter -Century sihce the beginning of
the first Great Watt.
Tien but 10,000,000 acres were ion to wheat in contrast to over 25,000,000 acres
now; then we exported but 25,000,000 lbs. of bacon and hdin to Great Britain in a
year, whereas this year our shipments will total over 260,0,00,000 lbs. Then the average
yearly production of a dairy cow was 4,500 lbs. of milk which now has been raised
to 6,500 lbs.
Farmers have been alert to the findings of science and the better practices developed
by our agricultural colleges and experimental ,farms. Changed methods have brought
vast improvements; higher standards of products have been attained and maintained.
Science, too, applied by practical men of knowledge has, through the solving of
many of our iminedlate problems, greatly increased the productivity of our farms and
added immense sums to the farmers' yearly revenue. -
Rust -resisting varieties of wheat hove now ended the annual losses occurring from this
perennial blight which is estimated to have cost the farmers of Western Canada in the
62 years of wheat growing, qn amount in excess of half a billion dollars.
Grasshopper control efforts have been perfected to the point where the damage
from these pests has been greatly curtailed, ane authority placing the saving from this
work at several hundreds of trillions of bushels of grain in the last seven years,
And the agricultural implement engineer has" been busy designing machines to meet
the speaflc needs of the moment. Speed, less manpower, and hover costs bf operation,
' have beear the gods and as a result most machines have undergone great changes:
Tractors have 'been tremendously improved; New machines' hove been made available.
,t One -Way -Disc Seeders—till and sow in one operation, cutting the cost of these operations
by 40% to 50% The new Small Combines extend the use of this new low cost harvesting
method to farms of all sizes—odving upwards of $140 per acre in harvesting costs.
Massey -Harris is proud to have played an important part in adding the contribution
of the implement maker to those of the scientist and farmer in furthering the interests
of agriculture.
711ivteirz. On.
MASS EY -11/11111/111
THE SERVICE
ARM OF THE
CANADIAN
FARM
asszarillnie
D'eause of the uncanny manner
in whiclh, the prophecies of Mbther
Ohdpton ,.have been coining to pass
during recent years; considerable, al%.
ten'bion laws been attracted to, this
sitiange creature of tom' centuries
ago. Even 'those who have in the
post Scoffed at the weird predictions
of this ancient ',witch" are now nil'
red by curiosity to wonder what will
next ooeus, in this direction,
Mother Sbipiton, we are told, was
born in. Yorkshire, Eugleud, in July
1438 and died about 11169, In booies
of information She is described as
a bele mythical English prophetess,
baptized Ursula Santbltel, who later
uuarriod Tony SiriBIOn, a builder,
Art' ording to -traditions, she was the
014114 oS Aigatha ,$hipton and the
Devil,
The. following extracts from h
aan'azingprophecieswere talc
from -a eorap book made more tha
forty years ago and owned by
Rochester waken, says the It.
cheater Democrat and 'Chronicle:
A house of glass shall come to Pass
Pn perry England, but, alas)
War will follow with the }Work
re the land of the bloody Turk,
And Skate and Sitalte in fierce stride,
Sita11 struggle For each other's lire
Carriages without horses shall go.
And accidents fill the world wttb
woe
In London, Primrose Hall shall' be,
And the center of a bishop's sea.
Around the world thought shall fiy
In the twinkle of an eye.
Through the hills men shall ride
And neither ho's'e or ass bestride;
Ender water man shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall also
talk
non in the water sivall float
As easily as a wooden boat.
Ldi shall be found and shown
n a land tirq)t's now unknown.
Eire and water shall wonders do
And England shall' edrnit a Jew.
Three times three shall lovely
Fnanoe
e led to deuce a' bloody dance
afore her ,people shall be free;
Three tyrant rulers shall she see
Each springing from a different
dgnasty
And when the last great fight is won
England and France .shall be es one.
And now a word in uncouth rhyme
Of what shall be in latter .time,
those wondenful far-off days
Wcanen vital] get a strange new
craze
'W'lal]iflJ0D.4Y, „Tun mu, 1940 r
Send Them
The Post
To write a lebter a week to that
relative or 'friend from this' distrlet
who is uorr far away, would cosh
you $1.66 in stamps alone, to 1157
nothing of palter and euvelapels and
the trouble one bas in thinking up,
something to tell thele. Why not
send her The Post, ett a total eost of�
x41,60 per Year, and no 'worry. Each
issue of The Post aootains: more
news of this district titan: a dozen
lettere,
Only Two Women
Interned i
The. Canadian Goerniaen:t has in-
terned only two women as enemy
aliens since the5 was' started end it
was learned there `las little imened:
erlate prospect of the Dominion fel-
en' lowing Great Britain's lead by order-
ing general detention of women
aliens.
o -i It was announced in London, last
week that all women in Great
Britain previously under police
resltridtlons as enemy aliens,. would
be interned' on the Isle of Man.
Inteamment officials in ,0etawa
said there were only two 'women
among the enemy aliens interned in these Canada, and 'two were not in
internment camps but detained in
women's prisons.
There were many women among
the 16,643 enelm'y aliens registered
in Canada, however -
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Go
B
In
�o ureas like men and breeches
wear
And cut oc their beautiful locks of
bait„
And ride asitride with brazen brow
As witches do on broomsticks now.
Then love shall die ' and marriage
cease
And babes wnct sucklings so de-
crease
That wives shell fondle cats and
dogs
And men live much the sante as
hags
In eighteen hundred and ninety-six
a3ui1'd your houses, of rotten, sticks
For then 'shall mighty wars be plan-
ned'
And lire and sword sweep over the
15nc1.
And 'Chose who live the century
than'
In fear- and trentibling this will do.
Fly to the mdunbadns and to the
glens.
To hogs' and forests' and wild dens,
Thor tempests, well rage and oceans
will roar
Aiidj Gabriel stand on sea and shore,
And as he toots his wondrous horn
Old 'twosldl shall die an etv be born.
In the' air men' slalij been,
In w'hi'te, in black and also green,
Now strange, brut yet they shall be
,true,
The world upsiide downy shall be
Anti gold shall be found at the
roa'ta of a tree;
When pictures look alive whir nvove•
orients' free,
When, ship like fishes swim below
dile s:eh.,
When 'ren t.. 101'outstripgpiug ,.,.iris can
asour the sky
-
Then half the world: deep drenched
in blgedi shall die.
The Carr of
romdrhow. .
• ,iia automobile of tomorrow will
be powered) by a. tiny sultease-size
ovine ,that r111 go 30 to 30 mi'tee on
it gallon 'of go:Milne at 60 Miles 510
borer, a motor fuel o,udhothty pre -
dieted. Dr, Gustave Agloft of
'Cliicrage said he had worked. with
repreeentativcee 05 an internetlenel-
ly kntowti, corporation .in develop -
met of the motor. It will be a4,.the
rear oe the car, twit)) power trans.
tented by a direct drive from anotor
to axle,
jorYOU
The Secrets
e
Good Looks
by
(�ahlrO)iA• tt•-y%Th •
DOUB/f :ACT/NG
BAKING POWDER
ty Care, A,ddsress: ;Mists Barbara
Lynn, Box 35, Station B., Montreal„,,
Que.
How "'Fifth Column"
Originated
A BEAUTY SHOWER Hardly a day passes but what
some reference is 'rade to the acti-
vities of the ''Fifth 'Column" and,
while everybody is familiar with the
meaning of the team, few 'mow )row
it originated, Here is one explana-
tion: It seems that General Franco,
when he was closing in on Madrid,
said that he had tour volumes at
troops to send against the city,
1 while a "difth" column waited inside
the city to stab the defenders in the
back.
Rain water is soft and fresh and
will help you to a fresher akin beau-
ty,
eauty, rSo put a bowl on your window-
sill to catch the sarin, and wash
yourself with it regularly, Now for
a few special rain 'slater beauty
treatments.
For normal skins, here's a good
bleaching treatment: Tie up a hand-
ful of good quality bran in a small
bag and leave to soak in about a
pint of rain Waiter for an hour.
Squeeze out well when you revive
It. Pour a little Of this liquid into
a ,saucer and add two drops of ;
tincture of benzoin, Smooth this ,
creamy lotion into your face and 1
neck at bedtime, leaving it to dry 1
on.
It you have en oily complexion,
with open pores, try this treatment
oocaslslonally: Add the juice of a
lepton toa glass ed rain water and
wash iu it night and miming, leev-
ng it to dry on the face without
towelling. An hour afterwards, rinse
n clear rain water,
WomenWoen welt dry skins, especially
should welcome rain water, for it is
so unbelievably soft. Wash in It reg-
ularly, using a gentle olive oil soap.
On, special occasions give Your com-
plexion
onplexion a clean up with a lotion con-
sisting of a tablespoonful of rain
water with an equip]. smutty of
fresh milk and cucumber Juice.
e
Write me, your special per -
venal problems, inclosing Soitr one -
den. weeps for my booklet on Beau-
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