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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-6-27, Page 2p, D, lideT. aiCV art• p, M4TAGUA1t# � 1CT N G 1317$1' CJENF1tAY; BANN KESS TRANSACTED. NOTEa DISCOUNTED, DRAFT,4ISSUED. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE - roma. BALI NOTE. rum, CHASED. H. T. 1RA Pt C'D -- NOTARY PuBLio, CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL, REAL ESTATE AND TIRE MIME- INCE W TY 1 - INCE AGISNT. VLEPRUIN'T- !Na 14 TIRi 1NBUU NCI COMPANIES. OIyItl1ON COURT tt1Lt 4TOA. critics, W. BRYDONl, BARRISTER. SOLICITOR. NOTARY ?UBI•i0, STC. WW1— gleam Brock—CUSTOS N. -O. CAMERON R.O. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR. CONVEYANCER. ETO. Glace en Albert Street *milled by Mr. Hooper. In Clinton un every Thursday, and on any day for which sp- 'oointments are made. Office bars irons 9 a.m. to ' i3 TAIG- A good vault In connection with the office. Offs open every 'reek day. Mr. Hooper trill snake any appointments Lor Mr, Cameron. DR. GUNN Office cases at his residence, tor. High and Kirk streets. DR. J. C. DANDIER Office Hours:—.1.30 to 8.30 p.m., 7.30 to 9.00 p.m. Sundays 12.80 to 130 Pm. • Other hours by appointment only. Office and Residence—Victoria St, CHARLES B. HALE, Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, Etc. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licenses HURON STREET, -- CLINTON. GEORGE' ELT,IOTI recensed Auet)onrer for the County el Ileroet. Correspondence promptly ensnared, Immediate arrangements cam ba toads for Sale ; Daeo at The Wens -Record, Clinton, er ity eahiag Phone lit en IiT. Charges asoderit® and meld:faeties eusranteed. Sok Agent for Scranton and D. 11. L. Coal We are going to give every person a load of coal as the names appear on the order book and must insist on pay- ment being made for same imme- diately after delivery. This ig necessary as deliveries twill be extended well on in to the fall months. TERMS STRICTLY CASK. We also have on hand a stock of Canada Cement. A. J. HOLLOWAY. At Your Service B. R. HIGGINS Box 127, Clinton Phone 100. (Formerly of Brueefleld) Agent for The Huron & Erie Mortgage Cole Po -ration and The Canada Trust Company Comm'sr 13. C. of J., Conveyancer, Fire and Tornado insurance, Notary Publio At Bruceaeld on Wednesday each week. } ro • r, 1011111 —TIME TABLE. -- Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton Station as follows: BUFFALO AND GODERICH DIV. Going east, depart 6.18 a.m. 2.58 p.m. Going West, ar, 11.10, dp. 11.10 a.m. ar. 6.08, dp. 6.46 pm. 11.18 p.m. LONDON, HURON & BRUCE DIV. Going South, ar. 7.88, dp. 7.60 a.m, " " 4.16 p,nt. Going North, depart 6.40 p.m. " If 10.30, 11.11 a.m, The licKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company Head office, Seafoeth, Ont, DIRECTORY President, Jarnos Connolly, Goderich; Vice., James Evans, Beechwood; Sec. -Treasurer, Thos. E. Bays,' Sea. forth. Director's: George McCartney, Sea. forth; D, F, NleGreemr, Seaforth• J. G. Grleve, Wgltote' WM. Rina, Sea - forth; M. Mo.Ewef, C1tnten; Robert Ferries, Harlotk; John Bgnnewela j3rodhagen• Jas, Co icily, Goderlc11, Agents: Arlex Mello , Glinted; J, W, Yee, ffoderich 1ld. Ise ley Seafort'h; V. ChesnoY aloindvt e; , G. Jar, 001111 Brrodhapnt_- .,y axone to aid May he paid to m ? �5J,t Q1QQt ft S1lipton, or at Cott 4ery o r c Irarrtie8 a lig eeat OUYalteo et traneacls her tie n8e a peonretly atteed to on staplictli on to tatty of the ri1{ov4 officers addressed to their res ecth tl8t';311'ic00 Loir3ol lespeoted tij+ trio dife6ter Wild lives ),rarest the scence 33y Agronomist. our farm readers who want the advice soil, seed, crepe, etc, If your question be answered through this eolumn. if noiosed with your letter, a complete Agronomist, bare of Wilson Publishing This Department le for the use of of an expert on any question regarding Is of sufficient general interest, it will stamped and addressed envelope is e answer will be mailed to you. Address Co„ Ltd., 73 Adelaide St; W., Toronto, i. W,;-.-1, What is the best keeping onion, those grown from seed or from Dutch sets? 2. What is the best time to sow buckwheat 404 what is the hest variety? 3. What variety a millet do you recommend and when should it be sown? Can you give me direetions for the culture of millet slid rape? What is the beet soil for all these crops? Answer: --1, Both systems of grow- ing onions are used. Some produce them from seed and others from Dutch sets, The yield from Dutch sets is usually less than that from seed; but the advantage is that the sets can be planted as soon as the ground is ready in spring aril the green onions are ready to use earlier than those raised from seed. As a rule bettor bulb onions for keeping are produced from seed. 2, Buckwheat can be sown any time early in spring until the first of July. Possibly sometime 'in June is tate best time to sow it. In tests at Ontario Agricultural College these four varieties stood high,—Common Gray, Japanese, Silver Hull, Rye Buckwheat. 3. In Ontario tests the following millets have given good re- sults, Siberian, Hungarian, Canary Bird.. Millet can be grown on any good soil. It can be planted later than most other farm crops, and pro- duce a fair yield of hay. In order to get a good, stand of millet, after the ground is plowed it should be thor- oughly disked and harrowed and if still Lumpy should be rolled and har- rowed. The millet is then sown broadcast at the rate' of 20 to 30 pounds per acre. It is worked into the soil by a light harrowing. Under normal conditions the germination and growth will be rapid. The crop should be cut before it is too old else the hay will be woody and of poor nutritive value. Rape can also be grown on moat farm soils but does not do its best on muck soil. The seed bed should be carefully prepared by plowing, disking and harrowing and the seed can be sown in rows broad- cast at the rate of 2 to 4 pounds per acre. A medium loam or a heavy loam soil is best adapted for the grow- ing of rape. As to variety, Dwarf Essex Rape has given best results in Ontario. W. W.: --h What will eradicate twitch grass froin the garden? 2. How would you treat potato blight? Answer: -1. Twitch or quack grass is exceedingly troublesome since it propagates by running root stalks just under the surface of the soil. Small pieces of these roots will begin to grow wherever dropped, hence the area afflicted with this pest may be rapidly enlarged if care is not taken to collect every bit of root stook pos- sible, and to dry and burn it when the ground is being worked in early spring. The only thing that can be done for quack grass in the garden is to keep its growth down by continual hoeing. Various methods to eradicate the pest have been suggested. One is by smothering it out. For this pur- pone a thick seeding of rape is prob- ably the most successful ci'op.to grow. Thickly sown millet is also very et. festive. 2; bate blight of potatoes most be treated by careful spraying with Bordeaux mixture, This mix- ture consists sof 6 lbs. copper sulphate, 5 Ills: lime, 60 gallons of water. The lime and copper sulphate must be dis- solved separately. A gallon of water will disbolW'e a pound of either copper sulphate or lime. When the ma- terial has been dissolved mix it in the proportions indicated, and spray the potatoes every ten days or two weeks from the time they are five inches above the ground. If any plants have missed the spraying and the tops have gone down early from blight attacks, care should be takep not to store stock from such plants with. healthy potato stock. W. W.:-1. What can I do for cut- worms? They are cutting off my tomato plants, I wind them with paper but they crawl up the paper and cut them just the same. Answer:—For controlling cutworms, the Maine Experiment Station gives the following advice:— "Control cutworms with a poison bait. This is very easily made up of white arsenic (can he bought at any drug store) some molasses and some- thing such as bran with which to make a mash. Mix the white arsenic and the bran material while dry and put the molasses into n• cup or a bucket of water to dissolve. Then add enough of this sweetened water to the bran to make it just moist throughout. Pletee a teaspoonful at the base (not touching) of each plant affected and near the base of adjacent plants, Where the damage seems to be along an edge bordering a piece of grass -land, put some down near each plant along the border. Use the following quantities:— For gardens of 1,i acre or less use:— Bran (or substitute) ..,.1 quart White arsenic . , ..1 teaspoonful Molasses 1 tablespoonful Water to.moisten For 1 to 2 acre gardens use:— Bran (or substitute) 10 lbs. White arsenib. 1 lb. Molasses 1 quart Water to moisten Many people add to -this poison mash, the juice and crushed pulp of some fruit that happens to be handy, such as grape fruit, apples, tomatoes, oranges, cantaloupes, etc., which may have "just one by," and it is consider- ed by scientific people to be a very good practice. This poison bait is cheap, easily mixed and easily ap- plied. The fact that it is a very old remedy which was standard many years ago has given a sufficient test of its reliability. One of the best fea- tures of the poison is that as soon eel the worm has fed he crawls into 'the ground from which he never emerges so that the birds do not eat the dead cutworms. While it is possible for vermin to live the entire year when conditions are favorable, they seem to do their most deadly work in June. Houses that are cleaned once a week and fumigated every month, are seldom in- fested with vermin. The writer has found that the use of tobacco stems in the nest boxes, in- stead of hay or straw, is in itself one of the best insecticides. Even in set- ting hens tobacco stems are used ex- clusively, with the result that when 011t te! n Ne cio,rd CLINTON, ONTARIO. Terms of subscription—$L60 per year, in advance to Canadian addresses; $2,00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries, -No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the publisher. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted on the label. Advertising rates—Transient adver- tisements, 10 cents per nonpareil lino for first insertion and 6 cents per line for.each subsequent inser- tion. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Logi " "Strayed," or "Stolen," eta., insert- ed once for 36 cents, and each subse- quent insertion 10 cents, Communications intended for publica- tion must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor, Editor. Do 'tjetitrun n ong,1tw11 o to hronyb p01 estion, roll w ` ftOhI sail a, t ek t4��l4l'�46 g4 pher, Nlbii ail ti 1!o'at sompIptr °HAM 1%0' 'i 1 yee. ticiteyee 011atepf1(gOnto` fat iiirr,pply bl late lite arttom and icenp Ow etewhgp nrlllverl Y,erfeotrarSlrilfl order, ,ille 4Itp ett(�f T rt.Xisrm it t atah8riniil fvle low t o,t Toronto the chicks are hatched there are no lice present to sap the life out of them. A good whitewash is made as fol- lows: Take one pint of Zenoleum, three quarts of kerosene, five quarts of milk of lime; mix all with alt equal amount of water. Milk of line is obtained by slaking enough lime with the water to get five quarts of creamy consistency, to which the other ma- terials are added. It is better to ap- ply the whitewash with a spray pump than a brush, as the force will drive the mixture deeper into the crevices, Zenoleum used in the spray will kill the bacteria and fungi, kerosene will kill the mites, and whitewash will give the pen a clean appearance. A good dog and a faithful cat are excellent guardians, and when these animals are well j:.rained there will be very little loss from hawks, crows, rats, weasels and.minks, Rats will not harm chickens after they are half mattn'ed, so long as some grain or other feed is lying about. They never loiter about a building where there is no place to hide. It is therefore wise to gnaw] against hiding places. There is a tendency for 'farmers to keep their lambs until they weigh 1.00 pounds or more, instead of selling them when they reach a weight of seventy -live to eighty pounds and bring the top marketeprice. Packers will n.ot pay the top price for ladtbs, no difference how fat, if they weigh over eighty pounds. The reason is because the best cuts of meat can be, obtained from the smaller carcass, In addition, the one who sells March lambs in ;June' or July when they have attained seventy-five or eighty pounds, instead of waiting until fall to dis- pose of them, avoids the danger of disease in the last two summer months. Lambs make very email gains during this period. They make itho cheapest gains under .live months of age. They can reach the neces- sary weight by the last of ja1110 0r middle of July if fed liberally with grain, pasture crops and milk from their mothers. rt'actors Still Available. Tho first thousand Fordson tractors ptn'chasable ;from Ilenry Forci and. lsor. by the Catteela Food 13oard have been sold to Canadian farmers, partners who wish to secure sue tractors lit :future should place their orders with the 1)eparttoent of Agri- culture in their own Province, and mw' 'Gil further notice such orders will be handled in the same way as the first %origami, The Superior Sex "You aro late again," said Clara. as I entered: "What is it this tinne'l" I explained the reason, A certain amount of tact was necessary, for my wife does not care for, remarks that reflect upon her sex, "Owing to the present .abnormal stateof things, my dear," I said, "our Once is almost entirely staffed by women. To many ways this le alt im• prevenient, ' Their refining influence upon the dress and deportment of the male members of the stall is notice. able. But there are, I, regret to say, certain drawbacks. Admittedly our superiors in many respects, in others they are not, I am afraid, equal to the situation, Take, for instance, mat- ters of detail where you—I mean they --should excel.. I asked Miss Philpott to write a letter—" "Did you post that letter forme this morning?" asked Clara, "If Mrs, Roberts doesn't get it, she won't know where to meet me to -morrow," I told Clara that I had posted the letter, although naturally I did not re- member doing so. A man who has hundreds of petty details to deal with every day develops an automatic memory a subconscious mechanism. that never fails him. I explained this to Clara. "Not once in five thousand times would it allow me to pass the pillar box with an un - posted letterin my pocket. 'Perhaps it is the vivid red—" "And perhaps your vivid imagina- tion," said my wife, "Well, I atn glad you. posted the letter, for Mrs. Rob- erts, as you know, never received the one you posted ten days ago," "1 took that matter up with the local postmaster.," I said. "He explained to nie that letters are now almost en- tirely sorted and delivered by women, and he was afraid mistakes some- times happened. And just to satisfy You about this one, which I put as caval in my breast pocket at the bade of my other papers—" I produced the contents of my pocket. As I expect- ed, the letter was not there. "Why do you carry so many papers in your pockets? What are they all about?" "Candidly, my dear, I do not know. Without the element of surprise, life would be unbearably monotonous. That element I deliberately carry with Inc in my breast pocket. When a dull moment comes I empty my pockets. It would surprise you—" "Nothing you do surprises me," said Clara. "Now go upstairs, please, and make yourself tidy;" flaw a dull ma• rent ---net more than one, for .dinner is nearly ready Bind get rid 01 those papery," Although my wile has not a logical process of thought, at times she makes sensible remarks. I took her advice. As 1 antioipcited, 1 had some sur. prises, A. few. important business memor- anda, a, sugar folia, two income-tax demands, a number of private letters and an unpaid coal account made up the collection. There was really no. thing 1 could part with, Luckily, I found two duplicates of the coal ac- count, 'These 1 could spars. As I opened one 'of thorn, Mrs. Roberts's letter fell out of it. 1 had just time to catch the post. I managed to reach the front door un- observed. My wife opened the din- ing -room door to tell me that din- ner was ready., 3 told her I had for- gotten to post a very important busi- ness letter,. "A `most unusual occur- rence," I said. "Mary can post it for you.- Din- ner's on the table." Clara extended her hand for the letter. I explained that'it was so very Important that I could not even trust Mary. "Mary's sex is, of course, against her," .said my wife, "but I'll tell her to hold the letter out at arm's length. You can see her all the way from the window and watch her put it in the pillar box." A little candor is sometimes neces- sary, I find. "Strangely enough," I said, "the five -thousandth chance has come off. It is true the letter is important, but the business is yours, and the letter is addressed to Mrs. Roberts. I forgot to post it this morning." "I know you did," said Clara. "You left it behind, and I posted it myself." Here I saw that I was going to score. "Then what is this?" 1 asked in triumph. "This," said Clara, taking it from me, "is the letter you forgot to post ten days ago." Food Dealers Licensed. , Canada's new system of license con- trol of dealers in foodstuffs involves over 80,000 retail establishments and about 28,000 wholesalers. Of the total number of retailers there are 80,000 grocers, 1.6,000 butchers, , 60,000 pub- lic eating places, 6,000 bakers, 2,000 fish dealers, 4,600 fruit and vegetable dealers and 4,000 produce dealers. The area seeded in Conjuring Creek district, Alberta, shows an increase of ten per cent. over last year, while in Foresthurg district there is an in- crease of fifteen per cent. GOOD HEALTH QUESTION BOX By Andrew F. Currier, M.D. Dr. Currier will answer all signed letters pretaining to Health. If your question is of general interest it will be answered through these columns; if not, it will be answered personally if stamped, addressed envelope Is en- closed. Dr. Currier will not prescribe for indivjdual cases or make diagnosis. Address Dr. Andrew P. Currier, care of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Infant Feeding No. 1. This subject is of great import- ance.at all seasons, but especially so during the heat of summer when the sensitive digestive apparatus of babies is thrown out of equilibrium. It would seem unnecessary to urge that every mother 'who is able to nurse her baby should. do so. The food which is supplied by her body is the natural and proper nutri- ment for her child. Occasionally it is not nutritious and cannot be used, somewhat more fre- quently it is insufficient in quantity and has t obs pieced out with cows' milk, rarely it must be suppressed in the interest of the mother's health or life. It is a sin against society, against nature and against God when a wo- man with an ample supply of breast milk deliberately elects to suppress it to suit her convenience. It Is next to procuring an abortion, which so many women do merely be- cause it is inconvenient to have babies and bring them up. I appeal to every honest, decent, woman who bas a baby or 18 about to have one to see that her baby is nourished at the natural source, so far as it is within her power. If this source fails the next best thing is to get -a wet nurse, or if this is impossible to use the milk of ani- mals. The• milk of asses and goats has curd or casein which quite resembles that its human milk, but such milk is usually hind to get and hence we must usually resort to eowsr milk, preferably from cows that are dry fed. Grass fed cows often eat plants which injure their milk as an article of healthful food, but the same plants which when green are injurious may he harmless when in the forts of hay. Milk is a complex and perfect food containing albumen in its cheese, fat in its butter or creast, sugar, water and mineral salts, and these are all the body needs for its upbuilding, It varies greatly, in the proportion of these constituents, some containing more cheese than others, some more fat, hence all milk is not equally suited for nourishing babies. At different periods in a baby's life more of one constituent is required than of another. Casein or cheese in'cow's milk is usually too tough to be digested by a young infant's gastric juice, and hence this substance must often be diminished. Milk spoils very quickly unless it is kept cold on account of the action of the bacteria which gets into it almost as soon as it is drawn. These bacteria may be destroyed or prevented from growing by the ac- tion of heat, The process of doing this is called pasteurization by which it is heated to 140 degrees F., forty minutes. Cream or fat may be added to it un - till its total volume is three per cent. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. M. K.—Have been advised to rub My baby girl, who is four weeks old, every other clay with olive oil, in order to strength her bones. 'Is it desir- able? Answer --it will do no harm, bat I think cocoanut oil is preferable, it is less greasy and it has nutritive value, as well as the olive oil, CUT OUT AND FOLD ON DOTTED ,LINE5 Wh tt,Willie saw this funny beast, yr 4 l'l't4 a 11 ghty q�ttr�&tut. a or 4 Y lti 7enl:ait. p Y 1 . 4 . yliltr. p Ili�p p H11Qii�f 100% Use of 'Vegetables. The more •genera'l use of vegetables as substitutes cannot be too often t'eitY crated. Their worth isnot half op- preeiated and with the war gardens flourishing apace there is a te),deney to be wasteful when such an abund- nnoe of garden .truck is ,lveilable, As a matter of fact, their uses ere not exhausted when they haus been served as fresh .greens, made into salads or boiled aoeording to custom. Much of the sugar and mineral con- tent, so valuable and pleasant to the taste, is generally lost in cooking be- cause women do not study ways and means to conserve it. None of the elements ;should be wasted, icor in- stance, carrots, eorn, peas, beat:, are rich' in sugar and the water in which they are cooked should be saved for soup. Spinach should always be cooked in its own juice and every spoonful saved, Onion water may be used for gravies and soups. Delicious soup is made by simmer- ing potatoes "diced" with skins left on, 'peas, onions and seasonings. A thick puree which is combined wit't a ten cream 88000 is made of this com- position. Peapods and the cobs from which uncoolced corn has been cut may be used to advantage In malting soup. PURE BLOOD MAKES HEALTHY PEOPLE Hood's Sarsaparilla removea scrofula Beres, boils and other env-. tions, because it drives out of the blood the bumore that causo them, Eruptions cannot be successfully treated with external applications, because these cannot purify tit@ blood, ldood's Sarsaparilla makes rich, rod blood, perfects the digestion, and builds up rho whole system. In- sist on having hood's. Clot it now, Increase in Agrieultural Exports, The increase in staple products ext ported from Canada last year over 04 average annual shipments of th( three years previous to the war aro very striking. Here is the increase as given out by Chairman H. B. Thom- son of the Canada Food Board: Pork, 122,000,000 lbs.; beef, 74,000,000 lbs„ butter, 12,000,000 lbs.; cheese, 30,000,+ 006 lbs.; eggs, 16,000,000 doz.; wheat and flour, 86,000,000 lbs. Stake up the roses and other plants as needed. Cosmos, unless growing along a fence, is likely to blow over' and break unless staked up. MOTHER -WISDOM There is a Right and a Wrong Kind of Fatigue in Children, By Helen Jo Of course children must be tired sometimes and if they rest quickly, then after a night of sound sleep or after a wholesome meal followed bya period of thorough relaxation, ail is well. Indeed, fatigue of this kind is actually healthful. Particularly at that time of life during the teens, which we call adolescence, the body and mind work best through periods of hard, fatiguing activity, followed by profound relaxation and indolence. All patience should be shown to adolescent boys and girls who choose to get through their tasks in this manner, al- though to their parents it may be somewhat irritatiny and inconvenient. There is, however, a fatigue whi9h is dangerous and which should be met at once with proper remedies, for the longer it allowed to persist the more difficult it is to overcome. The symp- tom by which it may always be known is the lack of power the sufferers have to become rested again. It set- tles down on them like a permanent condition of weakness and discourage- ment.Children suffering from this dan- gerous fatigue awaken irritable in the mornings, have poor appetites and lit= tie interest in anything which they do. They perform their home tasks and their school work in a blundering, in- attentive way. It lays them open to diseases of'all kinds and makes re- covery from these diseases more un- certain, slower and less complete. Morally, it leads to dullness, indolence and failure all along the road. The explanation usually made for fatigue and nervousness in children is that they are studying too hard. As a matter of fact, this is seldom the cause and if they are taken out of school, little improvement occurs un- less in addition to removing them' from their studies a number of other changes are made in their manner of living. I believe that if you will search yodr memory ,and experience l you will decide that among all those' run-down youngsters whom you -have seen taken out of school, the only ones who have improved have been those who at the same time were sent away for visits or put on diets or made to sleep on porches. The truth is that hard study will not hurt any normal boy or girl if it is done under health-' fel, happy conditions. Yes, it is trying conditions under which school life often proceeds, which usually result in dangerous fatigue and nervousness—sometimes running on into that twitching disease, known es Saint Vitus' dance, oe into tuber- culosis. The causes are threefold and lie in the faulty hygiene of the home, the poor hygiene of the school and the system of marks or competition with other pupils and examinations which are often pushed to a senseless and truly criminal excess. Children frequently..gtart off the day with insufficient breakfasts, ar- rive at school chilled and perhaps with wet feet and are .provided with a mur- derous ba.slcet-lunch of pickles, haat, cake and candy. What wonder that their heads ache and that they believe that their studies—which are indeed difficult and painful tinder these cir- cumstances—are the cause of their ill health! They feel far too sick to eat supper but are hungry by bedtime so they eat a generous slice of pie before sleeping. A. bad cligesejon makes a person feel. cold so probably they do not -Open the windows very wide and the pie, plus the poor ventilation, pro- duces restless sleep. So they go, from hnson Keyes. day to day, in a widening circle of 111 health. The schoolroom, perhaps, is heated by an unjacketed stove. Close be- side it the air is so hot that the chil- dren are drowsy; in the back of the room the youngsters are shivering, In both places the air is poisoned by the breaths of the children and the burn- ing up of fuel in that same stove— which equals twenty -live men in its power to exhaust pure air. The desks, very likely, face the door, and windows on both sides shed erose lights upon the children's,work, caus- ing eyestrain. It takes so long to put on coats and hats that outdoor recess Is omitted much of the time. The only wonder is that any study progress is made and even a tolerable health maintained by most of the pup- ils. The system of promotion is too apt to be a scramble by the children to get ahead of one another instead of a serious pursuit of knowledge. They wear themselves out in the nervous excitement of doing better than some- body else. Those boys and girls who happen not to be good recitation - scholars often fail in this scramble and grow despondent and ashamed. They are frequently the most prom- ising pupils in the school but nobody knows it because we are all blinded by the false standard we have set up. By„discouraging them, testing then by what they cannot do instead of by what they can, we thrust them int() the ranks of the nervous, the tired and .the discouraged. Before taking your run-down chil- dren out of school try this cure; In the bitterest cold of winter let them sleep with wide-open windows. As soon as the weather is milder put their beds on a porch. If you have a bathroom, let the day begin with a cold plunge in the tub or e. cold show. er. Give them a breakfast of well - cooked cereal with cream on it, and eggs and toast—no fried foods or sweets. See that their feet are dry - shod and their bodies comfortably clad for the trip to school. Prepare them nourishing lunches of well -baked bread spread with butter, or sanwiches of chicken or beef. Do not include ham, pickles, jams or candies. Chil- dren should not drink tea or coffee; instead, give them a bottle of milk or cocoa. Fresh fruits will supply all the sweets they need, in the best pos= eible form. When they must have cake let it be simple. Nuts and raisins make an excellent dessert with real food value but they should not be added to a meal already heavy with meat. This is true, too, of cheese, Cheese should be added only to a light meal of green salads or vegetables or fruits. Then let the mothers of the com- munity form a mothers' club or .0', parent -teachers' association and see that the school stove is properly jacketed; that there are always two windows open, one at the bottom and one at the top; that the desks are turned with their backs to the door and that the windows on the right tide of the room are darkly curtained, al- lowing the light to fall only from the rear and left side. If the school has but one room, urge the fathers to build on a second one where an oil stove ane}; a few kitchen utensils can be keptfor heating dishes for the midday lunch ' or even for simple cooking. 1 There will be few tired or nervou$ children in a community where such hone and school hygiene methods are practiced, The Southern Ca adc Power Co., Limited Controls Water Powers on the St. Francis River capable of over 100,000 H.P. development, and through stock own- ership controle several Light & Power Companies. 'iihe Company supplies power and light to over 46 muni• clpalitles in the .Province of Quebec, prfa.oipaliy in the klaatern Towoehtes. Work has been commoueed and Is prog'eseing rapidly, on the development of one of the Contpanfe largo powers on the St. Premeds, located at Drummondville. This phut le being developed to supply the increased demand far power in tine territory served lny tho Company and enable more manufacturers to locate in this etetrict. The development of water power now te a patriotic duty, as well as a oomanorcial advantage, We reconnnoed tine 6ejp ps o. the SOUTHERN CANADA POWER O0MPAN`V LIMITED, which. we re offering with a bonus of codeine!' stook, thus giving n- vestoreq an Opportunity Of partiotpating 1n the nave silo owls of the Company. Send for el:molar anti map showing territory ervrved. ! errs pV1RGrx,atkrk PL8.50 tiYt Ost h•�Y X'AnrLStCN{t' PLAN' rnomss mew I� Ir�- "° O0�r 4 O/ Ie. NY investment Bankers L11 t/Ned 1 di'Ctitltite Trost Bldg. aul it t1 222 St, ,JttitteS Street n x iViontr fti .ku1.kMerw+.w''N4YY.Iii„WMA,.''^”a."s+abrfivti4.440- eviesiesieeseate411seeese