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THURSDAY, MAY, 9,• 1e29.
s of ReVetaV
A Coln Prepared Especially for Witten—
But Not .Forbidden to. Nen
THE GARMENT MAKER
God bids me take
Justthe drab fabric' of my common
days;
From the mean snippings
t of my
earthly ways
f
11e bids me snake
Pine raiment, cut with skill to
designing,
M;adish, and new, and. shining.
But, fumbling with the poor and
flimsy stuff,
l'laterial so caloli•Iess and you ough,
I wonder He should set
A task so hard; and yet,
Looking past all `iiiy failures, frets
and. jars,
somewhere ;among the stars,
God sees the .perfect Thing;
[rhe finished' garment ready for the
Wearing,
V'o crooked stitches, and no pucker-
. ing;
lel careless tearing.
s
To -disobey, or doubt Him were a sin
A.h, well, the thought, the dream,
His design,
Not mine.
I'll thread my needle -and begins
Fay' Inchfewn,
There is - something; in woman,
which makes her love. fine stitching',:
beautiful needlework; which makes;
her take aninterest in the clever,
work of women skilled in needlecraft.
That is the reason why the little
quilt contest put o;n by The , News -
Record caused more than a ripple &f,
interest amongst our women readers,
The practise of makingpatchwork
quilts is not so common as it was in
our grandmothers' ,day, fo{r the sim-
ple',reason- that nowadays.swomen
have, so many more interests to
occupy their minds . and fingers in
`these buatlingi ,busy days. 'But,"
someone is 'bound to object, "didn't
our grandmothers have a great deal
more to do than the present day wo-
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DOM11411110WTIRE DEPOT
CLINTON
, ,,,, T, M. Elliott
LONDBSBORO Leslie Ball
man?, She did all her own work,
baked hair sewed for her family, in
many cases not only made the cloth-
iiz r
i her familybut ou spun the wool
go0
for the cloth." Yes; that is true. 'Oar
grandmothers had much more todo
with caringfor her family, and usu-
ally it was a bigger one than her
grand -daughter beasts,, but she had
not the distractions which take up
grand -daughter's; time and energies.
"A sheer waste of time," a gentle-
man remarked, as he viewed the
display. of prize quilts the other day:
413ut I do not feel that way about. it.
To the woman of a former age,;
whose work was almost altogether
within the walls of her, own home,
this was one of the folrms of self-
expression, It was One way in which
she gave expression to the artistic
in her, It was creative work, too,
and in that sense was' of more value
to the worker and to her family than
sone forms of work which now Oc-
cupy a woman's time perhaps.
Seventy-five or fifty years ago,
onall the ,farms- about diene and on
all the farms in the then settled
parts of Canada, were busy women,,
toiling to assist their husbands, fath-
ers and 'brothers to build up the
homes which- now are the pride
our nation, They were industii
women, who applied themselves to
their labors, and when they had leis-
ure to do it turned their, hands to
the manufacturing - of quilts, rugs,
lace tidies,. eta., and the work • which
remains today is a credit to their -
Creative ability. They had no auto-
mobiles, picture shows or radios to
distract their minds and few egen
had any reading. The doing of need-
ework was their 'recreation; they
turned. to it as women noiv sojne-
times turn to painting or any of the
ther fine arts women sometimes
amuse themselves with today. It -
rested :them: aftel:` the hard toil of
ther more necessary but less inter
sting wejrk. And, unlike many of
the recreations' of the p}•esont„day,
this work not only . satisfied. their
onging to •-express themselves in
cone -thing beautiful, but it actually
sed up waste product, transforming
into something useful and val-
able, fotr they took the odd pieces,
the left -overs, and worked thein up
nto coverings for the bed or the
oor. Wlomen who thus . conserved
tbat whieh would, otherwise . have
een waste, blazed the trail for, the
ventojr .who has worked out ways
f using up'by-products,
elf
ous' The funeral took plata from 'the
residence on Tuesday afternoon 'to
Colborne cemetery which was con-
ducted by her pastor, Rev. W. Parr.
She 'leaves, -besides her husband, -one
daughter and four'sons: Mrs. S. A.
Hewitt' of Mtitehell; W;illga)n of God-
erich; Jas. of Stoney Creek, George
of Vineinoent and 'Fred of Colborne.
•Also five sisters and three bnothers
survive: Mrs. Jos. Cook,_. Colborne;
Mrs: Joseph ;Holdsworth, Itolrnesville
Mrs: George Buller, Clinton; 'Mrs.
George Kemp; Mitchell; Mrs. George
Nuking, Tillsonburg and Thomas
Potter, Heilmesville; Oliver. Potter,
Clinton; and John Potter, Norwich.
Mrs. Archie Horton was also another
daughter who died about tiredly --one
years ago. The pallbearers were four
sops and two sons-in-law, James,
Fred, William and George and. Ar-
chie Horton .and 2. Hewitt '
Me. O. A. Roberts -on received on
Saturday the sad news :of the sudden
death from heart failure of �'iis broth-
er, Leister, residing at Niagara, New
York. Mr. Roberts -on bad just at
down to read the news paper when
he passed away. The 'body was
brought to Mx. C. A.. Robertson's
residence from where the burial took
place on Tuesday to Colborne ceme-
tery. The deceased was in his fif-
tieth year,
One of the oldest residents of 'Col-
borne township passed away on Sat-
urday morning in the person of Lieut
Col. John A. S. Vareoe, .and burial
cervica was in charge of Masonic
auapices on Monday, interment being
made in Colborne -cemetery, . Col.
Varcoe was well known in this local-
ity, having resided here- for some
years.
Mss. T. I1, Wilson went to her' .
home on account of her mothers ser-
ious illness at Wiest. McGilivary near
Parkhill,
Copba�ree Township
Those present at the third annual
Huron, 1 neo es ter'a W
tI'r a1 M.' S.
Bre-slate/lei held at
James St.al-birth, Exeter, on Tues-
day were: Mars, (Rev.) R. B. Ginning,
Mfrs, John .:Walter, .NIts, Arthur
Straughan, Mks. Sam, Gardiner,.' Mrs.
Thos. McPhee, Jr.; Mr's. Dan. -Mc-
Phee, :Mrs, John MjePhee, Mrs, Wm.
Watson, Sr,, Mfrs. Lundy, Miss Min-
nie Tabb, Mrs John Treble, Mrs. Wm.
Marsh, Mrs, Assfos Stoll,; ;firs. Geolrge
Glen,' Miss Jean Glen, Miss Vesta
Fisher, , htrs. C. A, „Robertson,. Mrs.
A. Y. Henderson and Mrs. Andrew
Johnston. The men attending the
Presbytery were: Rev. R. B. Cum-
ming Rev. Mr. Lundy, Mr. Thos. Mc-
Phee,
ItIr. Melviq-Tyndall bought his new
tractor and accessories_ on Friday,.
We: are sorry to report the detach
of the late Nljrs, Richard Gliddoa; on
Sunday,: April. 28, w'ho resided for
some years at `Dunlop. , The subject
of, this obituary was of a quiet and
upright character and attended Vic-
toria street church, Goderieh: Her
maiden name was Elizabeth Potter
and she was a resident of Colborne
for thirty-five years and when death
came she was seventy-eight. years of
age.
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-And it cannot be 'denied that many
of the efforts of the women of the
earlier days in Canada resulted in
artistic creations. It has been the
fashion for some years, of course,
tej laugh at the tidies, the patchwork
quilts, the hair or wool wreaths
which were made by our grandmoth-
ers and adorned their parlors and
spare rooms, when their houses
came to boast such rooms. But 'a
reaetioin .is setting in. We are be-
gun/mg .to take more interest in such
things; we are beginning to study
this handiwork"` with more toler-
ance, with something akin to wonder
and a growing respect. We are only
a couple of generations remolved
from the day of the wool wreath,
which was consigned to the attic as,
hopelessly out-of-date, but when
grand -daughter looks at the thing
infer at housecleaning time she stops
long enough to study the delicate de-
sign and to marvel at the cleverness
of the workmanship: She doesn't
want to hang it'in the living room-
not yet, at least. butshe will exhibit
it with some pride to hey friends,
telling them that it was made by her
grandmother, .and I will not be
surprised if some day soon when I
go into a friend's living room I find
a wool or hair wreath, in a modern-
ized frame of some sett, . occupying
the place of honour. In almost
every family there is somepiece of
delicate work of the grandmother'
onone side or the tither which is
highly prized, as they should' be. ev-
en though not always on. exhibition.
In Nova Scotia, where the work
has never been abandoned during all
the years from the first • stttlelneht
until now, quite a trade has been
built up during the pastfew years
in hcloked rugs. Nearly ;ail the wo-
men occupy themselves .with this
work and.' shite tourists :have: been
visiting the country so much they
have found sale for many of these
rugs. And, it is said, that in
cities like Boston, there are dealers
who will buy any quantity of these
rugs, sending out buyers wha..gel in-
to the homes of the people and buy
direct from the makers. 'Thus a
homely industry has grown into it
source of revenue, °
But, aside from any idea of gain,
there' is a fascination in needlework
which appeals to all women. No wo-
man was ever born, surely, whti
would not delight in : a bit 'of em-
broidery cleverly designed andplac-
ed and handmade "undies" delight
everyone of them, from the slip of a
girl -',to the grandmother. "Raiment
of needlework" is held, in as high re-
gardo day as in the. days: of the
psalmist, when it was worn by .the
King's daughter. I believe that in the.
years to come young girls may pay
more attention to the art of sewing,
This is ' evidenced by the attention
paid to it in some of the high scheols
and. Collegiates. No art seems more
appropriate;, no accoanplishment is
more womanly, than the art of using.
the needle cleverly.
REBEKAH
MUDDLING THROUGH -
(Halifax Chronicle)
Jolrn Bull hasbeen regarded in
some quarters as behind the times,
perhaps again due to his habitual re-
serve. But his trains -travel faster'
than the fastest en this continent.
His airmen were the first to fly..th
Atlantic, flying' it years before. Lind-
bergh. He holds the world's record
for speed in an automobile. Now he
flies from England to India, 4,100
miles; in 50 hours and 48 minutes
without a halt. It does look as if John
Bull was at his old tricks and is again
"muddling through."
SEAI+ORTII: Oliver Kirk,Sson of
Mr. and Mrs, Andrew Kirk, was one
of the successful candidates who took.
the bar examination at Lansing,
Michigan, in April. F'or some time
Ma', Kirk has been living in Detroit,
'where he was doing legal work for
the First National Bank, in addition
to studying law. He graduated a
year ago frons Detroit College of
Law, but owing to illness, was unable
to attend the examination for the liar
held at Lansing in September last.
A Baking Expert says
"Far light calces chat keep
moist for days, use 1 t:iblc-
spoon less pereupofPurityif
your recipe calls for ordinary
partsy.oesofewhest flour."
Still the Beet for Bread'
Seed sor it* shoos for thelawom
Piess1 Pharr Cook Book.
Wcatern Canada Flom Minn Ce.
Limited. Toronto, pd
TIILS OLD SCOTTISH LADY.
WAS FROM TIIE LOWLANDS
The Rev. Dr
i W.
T. Gunn,
MA.,
moderator of the United Church of
Canada; delights in telling of the
response that a ; sermon' `he once
preached on "Love" brought from an
old Scottish woman,
Years ago Dr. Gunn was the pastor
of a small congregation in Embro, a
village in the heart of the far-famed
Zorras, in Oxford County, a High-
land settlement given ,muelt promin-
ence in the writings of Ralph Connor.
On the occasion in question,
preaching his sermon on "Love," the
g'q'od, doctor felt it was an appropr-
iate:opportunity of working ina good
word for missions. . Taking the Bi-
blical injunction to "love one's neigh-
bor," he stressed the fact that this
'did . not mean just the persons living
next door, but was all -embracing, -In-
cluding the Chinese among -those who
were to be loved and assisted.
A few days later the doctor was
calling upon one .of his 'parishioners,
an old Seottish lady, who -•promptly
broughtup the subject of his Sun-
day sermon. '
"And did you really.. mean we must;
love the heathen Chinese?" she quer-
ied seriously:
"Yes, yes," came Dr. Gunn's re-
ply-
"Dear, dear," Was the discouraged
xejoiner, "It's hard.enough to love a
Highlander:I"
•
GODERIC':. A committee of the
Centennial committee has; decided to
erect bronze plates, with the word
"Goderich" in large type on the pil-
lars'. at the end of the Huron Road.
The plates will cost l80 each and will
give a finish to the. pillars.
RED FLAGS ON TRUCKS
This is from 'i;heWoodstock Sen-'
thze
1 Review:
Does.'
lire 'aSei•'
a e motorist k
$ or t icily:
that a truck with iour'red flags
sticking up is loaded with dynamite
asks St Catharines Standard. It is
information well worth having, just
in order to give that truck lots of
r.00m."
?Bah Wioodstojelr' and St. Catharines'
Must be peaceful rural burgs situated
far from the maddening highways,
it in this town and district, car:
drivers have long• since learned that
all trucks are loaded with dynamite.
and we givethem lots of rooms—if
we have time enough in whieh todo
it:
When a truck is nothing -but a
Whiz and a blur on the middle -of the
highway, what protection would four
red flags or any other ensigns be to
the other feIIow? We consider. ours
selves lucky if we hear one coining:.
Given that'. opportunity,. we don'task
to :know and we don't care what that
truck contains; we just.givet it a wide
berth on prineiple, • and it is 'a good
plan and a safe one too. -"These other
towns will learn someday that this
isgeed advice.--Seaforth Expositor.'
SEAFORTH: Mi. and Mrs. Ern-
est Welch celebrated the anniversary
of their silverwedding at their resi-
dence'on John street on Saturday af-
ternogri•when a pleasant social time
was spent. Thirty guests - including
their immediate relatives were pres••
eat, Dinner weeserved at 5:30
o'clock after whih the bride and
bridegroom were showered with con-
fetti by some of the younger people,
Mr. and ltlrs. Welch were married in
Norwich on Way 4, 1904, where they
spent some. time, afterward residing
in Orillia and Listowel.. They moves
to Seafoh•th two years ago. They have
i L. milY
ot six. Mrs,
Beat McIntyre,
I3iussoln Elmer . 111ne•i Hanover. Ianover; Norma
in Toronto and three children, Gor-
don, Dora and Jim; at home.' Mr..
and Mrs. Welch received many mes-
sages of congratulation and a num-
ber of handsome gilts. Among'the.
guests present front a distance were
Mr, and Mrs, James Turner,Gordon
Turner and daughter, Miss Beatrice.
and Mr. anti Mrs. Clzfford; -Burges-
ville; MMr. and Mks, Harry Bartrain,.
Salford; Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Fos-
ter, Ingersoll; Mins, Mitchell Mur-
ray and daughter, Lena of Otterville..
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PRESTON, ONT.
Montreal Toronto.
UST when we think our stock of Used Cars:
is away down .. in come a lot more, taken.
in on the Spring deliveries of Outstanding Chev.•
rolets. And they are certainly the finest, smartest:
bunch of used cars we've seen in marry a long day.
But .. good as they are,. . they have to go. And
when -you look over tie cars and see the prices:
you'll realizethey will go fast.
Come in tornght. Or as soon as you can. This
chance to save dollars on a REALLY' GOOD
car is too unusual to miss. ucal.s-zsot
1928 Sedan in good.Shape
1923 Ford Touring running good $100.00
1924 Chevrolet 4 passenger Coupe
1927 F'rd Truck
J. B. Clinton
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