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A dog may become famous - -in her home. In writing about this in-
cident, this woman said, "He used his
knife as a vehicle of food."
In this connection I saw a recent
"'letter to the editor" from which I
abstract the following: `;I have been
unable to find out the period and
cause of the abandonment by genteel
people of the table knife as an instru-
ment for carrying• feod to the mouth..
There is no doubt in my mind that
gentlemen of the Revolutionary per-
iod, such as George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson and others, used
the table knife almost entirely."
I am hoping, however, that no one
will argue that it is good manners
today, in Canada or Britain, to eat
with one's knife. There was a time
. say the time of George Washing-
ton. - when people did not bathe
frequently. Bath -tubs and bathrooms
are iiob quite 100 years old. There
is a progress in .manner@ just as there
is in methods of transportation.
',dog -lover circles. Take "Saddler", by
way of example - a smooth fox -terrier
who has received for fifty-five times
the award for the best dog in the
show. No other dog bas had an equal
distinction. Now his owners aye with-
drawing him from exhibitions. Sad-
dler's valedictory, as voiced by his
owners was, "Saturday at Far Hills
was saddler's last show. Wissie and
1 naturally feel a• pang in our hearts
that he will not campaign any more.
But our greatest feeling of satisfac-
tion is that Saddler leas helped to
prove in no small measure one thing.
a deg keeping form and shown fear-
lessly reaches his proper level under
our great panel of judges covering
our dog shows."
Saddler came into the world in a
howling storm in the' town of Work-
sop in England on` March 12, 1936.
His mother brought him through the
storm to the kitchen door, scratched
repeatedly until admitted, and thus
saved the' puppy from death by ex-
posure,
.If only Saddler's mother could know
of her son's glory and, fame and
triumphs!
A scientist has beenlooking for-
ward 1200 million years in a purpose
to predict what manner and forms
of animal fife will occupy the earth
then He has .been helped inhis
effort by surveying the evolution of
animal life in the remote past when
the earth sustained dinosaurs, weigh-
ing 30 tons, by way of example.
James Ritchie, professor in t h e
University of Edinburgh, is not very
predse in what he has to say about
animal life as it may - not will - be
1200 million years hence. Yet he has
ideas. Here is. what he says: "The
dinosaurs (vehich lived some 120 mil-
lion years ago) reached a longth of
100 feet. No other 'creature could
stand up to them. But inhabiting the
world with them lived small retiring
rat -like creatures in size utterly in-
significant, showing no hint of latent
greatness. Yet these were the fore-
runners of the great group of the
mammals. The dominant dinosaurs
and all their kindred have disappear-
ed from the face of the earth, and
their insignificant eo-dwellers have
in the course of ages become the
masters of Creation. Man is their
greatest and most dominant repre
sentative. It may be that while he
rules the earth some line of evolu-
tion is budding all unsuspected, as
in the days of the dinosaurs, which
will eventually blossom in the far
Futuro as the successor of humanity.
The world may become a place in
which birds and beasts will be beset
by a growing lethargy, until they
meet the problem which faced and
defeated the reptiles, and which for
them also can end only in the limbo
of lost causes."
Added up, all that Professor Rit- f
dile says is, "We can't even guess
what will be the manner of life on
the earth 1200 million years hence." '
In my boyhood I used to hear the
term "York shilling" used frequent-
ly, to signify 121/2 cents. Today we
hear = perhaps use - the term "two
bits" er "six bits" - a "bit" being
equal to 121 cents, but the common
use of "bits" is in the United States,
and perhaps in particular sections of
that country - the South and West.
I saw a letter from a man who is
curious to know the origin of "bit"
as applied to currency. He said: "I
early learned the difference between
the New England shilling and the
York shilling, for my mother, who
had been reared in Buffalo, never
learned to figure prices as quoted by
Yankee shopkeepers, and often tried
to pay in six of her own shillings, or
76 cents, for somethings for which
the storebeeper was asking six of the
Down East shillings, 9r a Stoller.
When we moved to Washington in
1881 I learned a new namefor the
value of 12% cents. Nobody spoke
of shillings, but the storekeepers
and market folk reckoned in "levys"
That was the common term through-
out the South for what the West
termed a "bit."
Talking about the word "bit": An
Irish colleen once said to me, when
I asked her the distance to a certain
place, "A mile and a bit and the bit's
as long as the mile" and she said
it with a smile.
Who is there among us who has
never suffered from toothache? 1
I suppose that we are becoming 'wise
in regard to ways by which toothache
can be prevented or lessened, not hi
the matter of severity, but in respect
of the numbers of persons who suf-
fer from toothache. Tooth decay can
be arrested or minimized - by care
in what we eat. Cavities are caused
by acid decomposition of the enamel
t and the underlying dentin, associated
with protein breakdown or destruc-
tion of the organic substance of the
tooth - mainly the pulp. Tooth decay
is restricted to people and animals
who eat liberally of carbohydrate -
containing foods. The best defence
against tooth decay is a diet high in
vitamins A. C. and D, fairly rich in
fats and containing little or no sugar.
A smooth tooth is less likely to pro-
vide lodging places for food particles,
beneath which bacteria produce acid
by fermentation of starch, and hard.
enamel is not as easily attacked as
is soft rename1 Sugar and candy
eating causes tooth decay. Sugar
seems to be far more of a menace
to the health of the teeth than are
starch foods. Here's what one 'auth-
ority says about tooth decay: "All-
around optimum nutrition plays a
part in tooth health by maintaining
some property of the mucous secre-
tion or of the saliva, or both, which
tends to suppress the growth of
micro-organisms whose presence in
large numbers would be inimical to
thehealth of the teeth."
A good-hearted Canadian woman
resident in. England saw a soldier on
leave holidaying in the Lake District,
in which district she has her present
home. Seeing the word "Canada" on
his shoulder, she spoke to him, and
then invited `him to have dinner in
L.
FINEST..
F U1T
rPE, rosy Canadian Apples
are one of the finest
foods that can be bought.
They're plump and wholesome,
heavy with delicious inide. llat
two or three of these apples
every day —.'they're geed for
you.. Ana be sure to serve
plenty of tasty apple desserts —
•-applc pie, baked apples, apple
dumplings and applesauce.
Canadian Apples are inyour
neighbourhood store. Buy there
NOW.
Marketing Service
DOMINION D[ 1 ARTMENT
OF A:GltSCWLrU:nE,
OTTAWA
r, T,James 0.rtL rdu,e,, '' Minister fir.
7:k_ CORD FDR XDLI
There' is an increasing demand for
engineers, with emphasis on admin-
istrative engineers for time and mo-
tion studies, costs, standards, and
production control. In the fieldof
mechanical enginering the demand is
for drafting, testing, development
and research. There are increasing
opportunities for electrical engineers,
and for acro nautical engineers for
drafting, and stress analysis and de-
sign also for civil engineers, who are
needed for structural steel design and
general construction.
Employers are building up a re-
serve of technical personnel by using
junior jobs as preliminary training
for work requiring graduate qualifi-
cations later on. In the engineering
field many who have been steadily
employed are being promoted or giv-
en increases in salary so that they
may be retained.
In the .business field the demand
for accountants predominates. Most
calls for copywriters and sales pro-
motion men • with two to four years
experience come from commercial
firms rather than from advertising
agencies. Employment' opportunities
in the field of foreign trade present
an interesting situation.
All this should be of great interest
to parents of sons and to young men
considering the problem' of a career.
SHARP DECREASE IN
1940 APPLE CROP
"_In a report on the -fruit crop for
1940 issued at the end of September
the Dominion Bureau of Statistics
estimated the apple crop for all Can-.
ada at 3,722,400 :.barrer's, a decrease of
2,969,500 barrels compared with the
1939 bumper crop of 5,791,000 bar'-
refs.
On September 16 and 17 a ' gale
blew over the. Annapolis Valley, Nova
Scotia, one of the principal commer-
cial apple producing centres of Can-
ada, and blew down about 600,000
barrels. Extensive damage was done
to the more valuable varieties by that
gale. Much of the fruit that with-
stood the high wind and remained on
the trees was injured, to some extent.
It is now estimated that Nova
Scotia will harviest omly about 780,000
barrels compared with 2,300,000 bar-
'rels in 1939; New Brunswick 30,000
barrels compared with 75,000 barrels
last year; Quebec 230,000 barrels in
comparison with 337,000 barrels in
1939; Ontario 649,600 barrels as
against 1,010,500 in 1939 and British
Columbia, 2,082,800 barrels compared
with 2,069,000 last year. .
This year's, pear crop for the Do-
minion isplaced at 547,000 bushels a
decline of about 30,000 bushels from
1939. Nova Scotia is expected to ac-
count for 22,000 bushels of this year's
crop; Ontario, 237,700 bushels and
British Columbia, 287,800 bushels.
The yield of plums and prunes in
1940, at 222,700 bushels is about 45,-
000 bushels below the total output a
year ago. Of this year's production.
8,900 .bushels will come from Nova
Scotia; 59,500 bushels from Ontario
and 145,300 bushels from British Col-
umbia.
The production of all other fruits
in 1940 is less than in 1939.
WORLD'S LONGEST JOURNEY
From Tibet to the Argentine by
Cance) Ship & Train
The longest journey in the world
has been covered by the Cashmir
goods sent during the last six months
from Scotland to the Argentine.
It began in the mountains of Tibet.
Chinese merchants still travel by
camel from Tientsin to Tibet over the
road once trod by Marco Polo, the
Venetian merchant adventurer of the
thirteenth century.
They go to buy from mountain
herdsmen the fleece of the Tibetan
goat. It is the lightest wool in the
world.
From Tientsin the wool is shipped
in bales to Scotland. In Hawick it
is spun and knitted into garments
which are then shipped to Buenos
Aires.
Inrthe last six months the Argen-
tine has taken from Scotland more
Cashmir goods than in the previous
twelve.
To -day smart women in Buenos
Airse can amuse themselves as did
the great ladies of the 18th century
with theii vast shawls of Indian silk,
They can take a Braemar juniper and
draw it through a wedding ring: one
of the most popular of these jumpers
weighs only 21/2. oz.
A. few years ago the demand in the
Argentine was for the heavier
weights. Central heating has chang-
ed that, and Iightweights are to -day
the vogue. The stand collar, intro-
duced three years ago, is standard
now and this season's popular shades
are bottle or tartan green, jade, wine,
marina, Royal blue and marve.
CANS FLATTENED BY THE
MILLION
To Save Shipping Space for Export
Samples of a flattened can which
ingeniously solves a formidable pack-
ing and transport problem are now
on their way from Britain to Brazil
in charge of the representative of an
English firm who are the largest
makers of metal containers in the
British Empire. Other representa-
tives are shortly leaving for the West
Coast South American states, for
Ecuador, Peru, Chili and Colombia.
The idea of the flattened can is
simple. The cans are made to the
normal cylindrical shape, with side
seams properly soldered. They are
then pressed flat so that, whop pack-
ed for transit, they take up only one
fifth of the space occupied by made-
up cans. The great saving in freight-
age costs (a heavy charge in these
deys) rapidly repays the small cost
to the overseas customer of the three
simple machines by which the flat-
tened cans, when they reach their
destination, are re -assembled to their
normal cylindrical shape.
So completely has the idea been
worked' eut that the lids and bottoms
of the cans, which are packed' sep-
arately, are supplied stamped and
lined with sealing compound ready
for use.
Already millions of these flattened
cane, which can .be used for jams,
vegetables, fruits, juices, butter and
margarine, dried milk, and even paint,
have been sent •to. many export
markets: a _l. a
• CROP REPORT
The year 1940 goes upon record as
a year of good crops in Canada as a
whole and as a year of extraordinary
good crops in the Prairie Provinces,
where the *heat yield is the second
largest in the history and may prove,
when returns are complete, to be act-
wally the largest. To this' general
picture there have been local excep-
tions, certain crops' in Ontario having
been adversely affected by cold, wet
weather and certain, crops, in British
Columbia by shortage of moisture
during the growing season. For the
Prairie Provinces preliminary' esti-
mates, place this year's total wheat
crop as slightly below that of the
record production of 1928. - Grain is
generally of high grade and quality:
The Dominion Bureaus of Statistics
estimates: wheat production of the
three Prairie Provinces at 534,000,000
bushels., which is 71,481,000 bushels
larger than the third estimate of last'
year's crop and compaa'es with a ten-
year average of 307,013,000 bushels.
The estimated average wheat yields
by Provinces follow: Manitoba 20.0
bushels, Saskatchewan 16.7 bushels,
Alberta 23.4 bushels,. The 1940 wheat
acreage in the Prairie Provinces of-
ficially estimated at 27,750,00 acres,
is the largest on record and is more
than 1,900,000 acres in excess of 'last
year. Production of coarse grains is
slightly higher than in 1939 and win-
ter
inter feed supplies are generally suffie•
ient. Production of oats is ,estimated.
at 251,500,000 bushels and of barley
at 89,000,000 bushels. Threshing is
virtually finished in Manitoba and
Saskatchewan. In Alberta operations
have been delayed by frequent rains,
but threshing is now about 75% com-
pleted. Wheat marketings have been
affected by Governmental restric-
tions, but from August 1 to October
3 deliveries by farmers to country
elevators totalled 156,724,000 bushels,
compared with 259,198,000 bushels in
the same period last year. In Quebec
Province well up to average yields
are reported of hay, grain, roots,
apples, small fruits, tobacco and
maple products. In Ontario the hay
crop was heavy, Fall wheat a good
yield, and late roots, except potatoes,
are promising, but Spring grains
were damaged by wet weather at
harvesting. Small fruit were plenti-
ful, but the yield of most tree fruits,
as well as of corn and tobacco, were
substantially below average. In the
Maritime Provinces a fair to average
harvest of all the main staples is
generally indicated, with the excep-
tion that apples will be a light crop,
owing to extensive damage by storms.
In British Columbia the hay crop was
heavy; yields of tree fruits good and
the crop of tomatoes a record one;
slightly below average were the
grain, root and vegetable crops.
' WEAPON AGAINST T TANKS
"Molotov cocktails", so named
now being manufactured in Britain.
vehicles of armoturced divisions.
`,aa.r.a,rar.avir.osa,raY,
because of the use the Finns made of thein against the Russians, are
They are considered to be an effe ctive weapon against tanks and other
Windbreaks Are Essential
i Northern Ontario
(Experimental Farris News)
In many parts of Northern Ontario,
the virgin bush is so close to dwell-
ings and farm buildings that it af-
fords protection from the penetrating
cold of winter winds. As the clear-
ings become larger and the standing
timber retreats, the buildings become
exposed to the full force of the winds.
Only there is it realized how great
was the protection of the natural
bush, states E. T. Goring, Dominion
Experimental Station, Kapuskasir-g.
In other sections all the natural for-
est has been burned off by forest
fires or has been cleared away. Un-
fortunately in such districts attempts
to replace the .natural shelter of the
forest have been few,
It is not always realized just how
costly it is to be without adequate
protection from wind. In dwellings,
the fuel required to heat the house
is often doubled when there is wind,
and even then it is almost impossible
to maintain an even and comfortable
temperature. In barns and poultry
houses the problem is equally serious.
Much of the feed that should be go-
ing into profitable production has to
be used up in producing heat to keep
the live stock warm. As the propor-
tion of feed that is used in this way
is large enough under the best con-
ditions, every effort should be made
to bring about conditions where the
minimum will be required.
To create such conditions shelter
for the buildings must be provided.
The only practical way of doing this
is by planting trees in belts suffic-
iently broad to stop the wind. Ever-
greens are the most valuable trees,
but deciduous trees, such as poplar,
are also good, The latter give shelter
more quickly and while not so satis-
factory as evergreens, serve to stop
the gap while the others are growing.
The shelter belts or windbreaks
should of course be planted on the
sides from which the prevailing winds
blow. These in Northern Ontario are
on the north and: West.
Unfortunately it takes some tune
for trees to grow. This is all the
more reason for establishing the
windbreak as soon as possible. In
the newer sections, it will then have
time to grow and give shelter before
the natural forest is cleared away,
while in the burned over areas the
sooner it is started the sooner it will
produce the protection and comfort
that only it can give.
LEGION WILL HELP EDUCATE
THOUSANDS OF MEN
UNDER ARMS
OTTAWA—Canadian Legion War
Services has announced that its fall
and winter program of education
among the forces at sea, on land and
in the air, is now under way and
that applications are being received
from men in alI parts of the Dominion
who wish to take up or to continue
studies in academics and vocations.
According to Lieut -Col. Wilfred
Bovey, O.B.E., of Montreal, national
chairman of the Legion's military
education division, negotiations cone
ducted during the summer have re-
sulted in the wholehearted co-opera-
tion of every provincial department
of education, and scores of prominent
educationists and qualified instructors
have offered their services on an hon-
orary basis. It is anticipated that
between three and four thousand men
under arms in Canada alone, with
hundreds more stationed in Great
Britain, Newfoundland and Iceland,
will become enrolled as students for
the new study season.
Col. Bovey said it was expected
that a Legion education officer would
leave shortly for England to re-
establish classes among the Canadian
forces overseas. He pointed out there
would be a great demand for such
activity if Hitler confines his as.
mutts on Britain to the air.
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