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By John C. Kirkwood
Old men continue to play their part
M world affairs - men of 70 and on-
ward. Take Paderewski, by way of
example — an 80 -year old man. He
is back in America an unofficial re-
presentative of Poland„whose mission
is to win sympathy and support for
his stricken country.
In Norway a man must reach his
50th .birthday to win a place in the
confidence of his fellow nationals, In
Norway a man is not honored When
he reaches age 2].. The big celebrat-
ion is when he has his 50th birthday.
Not until he is 50 does he reach mat-
urity.- .Lift begins for a' Norwegian,
not at 40 but at50.
Moose are emigrating to Canada
from Minnesota. Many of us, I im-
agine, havenot known that Min-
nesota was a home of moose, In
this ,state are, it is estimated, 2500
moose. They don't like noise, tour-
ists camps, and the intrustions of
trucks and, motor cars into their
haunts, so they are seeking peace
and quiet northwards.
School children were asked to pro-
pose navies for new animals received
at zoos in Central Park New York
City, and Prospect Park, Brooklyn.)
Here are some of the winning 'names 11
—for prizes were offered in connec-
tion with the naming: Blackie, for a ,
black leopard; Dixie and Tried°, for
two sea lions; To -To, for a yak;
Musty, for a deer; Glamour for a
llama; Duke, for a tiger cub; Ko -Ko These are just a few words out of
and Jo -Jo for two monkeys; Sheba the many which so many broadcast -
for an antelope; and Duchess, for era including Lowell Thcmale—and
a lioness. so many Hollywood stars mispro-
nounce,.
The predecessor of Big Ben, Lon-
don's world-famous clock, was known The word "khaki” ie derived from
as "Great Tom of tater:' an East Indian word, khak, which
Once Great Tom gave forthorth 13 13 strok-
es—and in so .doing saved the life means dust, and khaki as a material
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of a sentry. Here's the story: John
Hatfield,
clothing was used nearly
Hatfield, im the reign of William and 100 years ago—in India. Then and
Mary, was tried and condemned by there English soldiers, finding that
court tnartiel for falling asleep• while their(white uniforms made them too
on duty as a sentinel on the terrace visible to their enemies, learned to
of Windsor Castle. He pleaded in- dip their clothes in muddy pools to
socenee and alleged that he had heard give them protection coloration. From
Great Tom at midnight strike fillet -cloth, first used officially by the
sen—a statement disbelieved both on British army in the Egyptian eam-
accoutt of the distance (21. miles) paigri of 1882.
and the improbability. But several
persons came forward and swore that If you are a wonme'n—age from
the clock did strike thirteen, and the 18 to 70—you may be one of the
man was pardoned. 3 million women bowlers on this con-
--u tinent. This sport—and it may take
In a certain university thirty stud-
in lawn bowling and pin bowling—
has inereasedin popularity enorntous-
to help one another find jobs to help ly during recent years. But it is in -
them meet the expenses of their col- door bowling — knocking down the
lege education. They have made a pins' with a 16 lb, ball—which has
city-wide cane*of housewives to the larger favor.
tell them of their aims and of the Bowling allays for women have
services offered by their organization very definitely styled. They are trim -
and they have circularized! every bus- red with chromium, and in other
mess man in the community and fol- ways made extraordinary attractive.
lowed up, with personal calls. They Also., there have been developed
have advertised in church papers and special clothes and accessories tfcjr
have talked before service clubs. They feminine bowlers. Thus, their are
have used posters. Dt the first six jewelled emblems and rings, 2 -toned
weeks of their existence as a corp- bowling shoes, initialled bags. Even
orate body they earned a total of the balls used have been styled, There
more than $300 doing odd jobs, n'ang- are special slacks and one-piece
Tang-
ing from driving a hearse to staying dresses with short sleeves, but shorts
with 'old folks' evenings. are urscouragedr
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Your coerectness in pronunciation. In
your own ease it may not be import-
ant—how you pronounce words; but.
when it comes to those persons who
aro professional broadcasters over
radio stations, or who are public act -
tors, then it is important that their
pronunciation shall be absolutely eot'-
i'ect. The broadcasters of the Brit-
ish Broadcasting Corporation are re-
quired to be perfect. 'Inregard to
lour broadcasters over CBL and other
stations, they do not seem. to be un-
der any obligation or pressure to be
cermet in respect of pronunciation—
which is a circumstance dise:retable
to both themselves and the 0 13 and
commercial sponsors.
Perhaps you will have the courage
to pronounce these words in the
hearing of one able tosay whether
or not your pronunciation is correct-
-Vagaries
Deficit
Bahamas
Inexplicable
route.
decadent
machinations
leisure
patriotism
incomparable
inhospitable
irrefutable
despicable
`rations
strafe
irreparable
amenities
naive
When a bomb explodes in London,
the air concussion does not always
send the glass in windows inward.;
quite commonly the glass flies out-
ward, into the street, due to the suc-
tion which succeeds a blast: the vac-
uum created, pulls the glass outward.
Within 200 feet of a blast the chance
of any window's surviving is small.
Beyond 200 feet the ehance depends
on the size and thickness of the glass
'the !frame, the size of bomb and
method of detonation, and, above all,
on the reflection of the blast from
adjacent buildings,
A. good many shopkeepers• and
householders are removing glass en-
tirely and substituting translucent
plastics.
Are you a correct pronouneer of
unusual word? probably you think
that the way you pronounce a part-
icular word is the right way to pro-
nounce it, but if you will cheek your
pronunciation with the .authentic
pronunciation as found in dictionar-
ies, you may not be so confident of
If you imagine . that bowling is• a
weight -reducer, then you are delud-
ing yourself. Yet bowling is a fine
outlet for pique, for domestic ir-
ritations, and other sorts of emotion-
al upsets.
If you are not already 65 years old,
you are likely to be 65 someday. So
know this: only 5 percent of alt men
aged 65 can retire on their own mon-
ey: 67 percent of all men aged 65 are
dependent on charity; 28 percent
keep on working—from necessity.
STRIKE DEER ON HIGHWAY
While returning from Stratford
last Wednesday evening Mr, and Mrs.
Charles Bell had the misfortune to
strike a deer standing in the middle
of the highway. The accident occur-
red on No. 4 Highway, about two
miles south of Londesboro. The deer
struck squarely on the front of the
car, and damaged considerably the
front and a fender of the vehicle.
A. search failed to find any trace of
the animal. Fortunately neither Mr.
or Mrs. Bell were injured.
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THURS., NOV. 21, 1940
.RENOVATING SHRUBBERY
By George j1. Crowie
When one inquires the age of most
of the homes in country towns of this
part of Ontario they are usually
found to Have been built a quarter
of a century or more ago; therefore
the trees. shrubs and vines about
them have been; growing during, at
least, that period. So, although at
the time of building most of the
landscape plant anateriel was needed,
even looked scanty for a while, much
of itis now too crowded, casts too
much shade, and needs renovating or
replacing with s`naller specimens and
with some, newer varieties.
For .instance along a residential
street recently I noted one block con-
taining three times as many trees as
a' similar block further along. ?loth
tree rows seemed to be equally at-
tractive, but a closer inspection of
the tree -crowded section showed con-
siderable overshading of lawns (spots
bare of grass) and of lawn shrub-
bery, an.cl the exclusion of a desirable
ailment of air and sunlight from the
house's along the way. In such a
case it is frankly better to remove
at least half the trees on lioth street
and oei the hone grounds, especially
the ones nearest the house: Prefer-
bly this tree thinning should be done
a few years before the tree vows be-
come so crowded as to spoil the in-
dividual shape of the specimens to be
left. Th? satire defect of overcrowding
and the same remedy of taking some
out is applicable to much of the lawn
shrubbery about old time places.
After this thinning in numbers, and
a thinning out of some of the old
stems right to the ground, among
shrubbery clumps, comes the pruning;
and perhaps the best general hint
along this line—without field Metro -
tions is to advise the cutting back
heavily of the largestbranches, and
sometimes of the terminals, to a fork
or a po'i t'where the cut is concealed
by- younger branches or twigs stick-
ing further out. This may seem dif-
ficult to do where shrubbery has been
allowed to grow so'thick as to be a
mass of terminal twigs and barren
stems, but it should' be carried out
at the risk o.' semi bareness for one.
season,. After one initial vigorous re-
novating g lighter but regular annual
Ihinnings rind pauniings thereafter
will keep landscape material to the
sizes desired. This pruning can be
dove at any time during the ilonnant
season --when the trees are off -al-
though spring blooming shrubs will
profit by' a liberal pruning in very
early summer (immediately following
bloom) giving opportunity for the de-
velopment of next season's flower
buds, which' form then but remain
dormant until the next spring.
As to shrub replacement, any good
nursery catalog lists dozens of the
newer varieties of lilacs, viburnutns,
syringes, honeysuckles, spiraes ete.,
and of vines, the kinds that have been
so abundantly developed by propagat-
ors during the years since the origin -
a1 plantings about old homes were
made. Then too I often wonder why
we do not more often follow the
European custom of selecting for
home grounds more kinds of trees,
shrubs and vines whose fruit, nuts
or berries are edible and useful, in
addition to their having ornamental
qualities.
FOOD POISONING
TYPES
The Consumers Counsel of the U.S.
Agricultural Adjustment Administra-
tion says that two of the most com-
mon eause of food poisoning are:
1. Food not properly sterilized or
refrigerated.
2, Carelessness in handling house-
hold insecticides.
The Consumers Counsel then goes
on to say that—
Under the law, products capable of
causing food poisoning may be group-
ed into three general classes. First,
those that contain poisonous substan-
ces like arsenic or lead. Second, those
that harbor disease germs such as
oysters or milk, containing the bac-
teria of typhoid fever. Third, food in
which bacteria have developed, as in
contaminated custard mixings.
According. to this same survey,
mass food poisoning such as occur at
church suppers, picnics, or fairs are
almost always caused by insufficient
refrigeration.
Another cause of a great many
cases of food poisoning is just plain
carelessness in storing perishables
where they will not be properly re-
frigerated, carelessness in handling
foods that are being prepared for the
table, and carelessness in the use of
disinfectants, insecticides and other
household chemicals where food is
prepared.
Prevention
Medical men agree that the surest
way to halt an •ep•idemic is to stamp
the disease out at its source. The
same reasoning can be applied to food
poisoning. To this end, there are
three fundamental rules which, if fol-
lowed, would contribute greatly to the
complete elimination of food poison-
ing.
1. Keep foods free from dirt and
from insects or other carriers of
microorganisms. See that all food to
be eaten raw is freshly cleansed and
sound, free from stale odors, from
slimy rotten areas and from mould.
2. Serve cooked food as soon after
it is prepared as possible this ape
plies especially to custard mixtures.
Do not expose moist or soft cooked
food to a temperature above 50 de-
grees F. for more than a few hours,
Keep them in the refrigerator. If
no refrigerator is available, recook
the food before serving it, even if it
shows no sign of spoilage.
3. Never take a chanoe on any food
With an unusual smell or appearance,
Be especially careful with custard
mixtures. Prepare the custard only
as needed. Cook it sufficiently and,
if it is not to be salved right away,
keep it under refrigeration.
The Solution
Electric refrigerators have always
been designed to .provide temperat-
ures that are well within, the Safety
Zone limits.
If •more people followed the throe
fundamental rules of prevention of
food poisoning, and stored their
Perishable foods ie a modernelectric
refrigeartor, then indeed the root of
food poisoning would be destroyed
at its source.
Millions of families'who ane users
of electric refrigerators are proving•;
every day that an electric aefrigerat-
or is an economic necessity, not a
luxury.
CARE OF FLOWER BEDS
IN THE FALL
(Experimental Farms News)
Any idea that perennial plants re-
quire little or no care after planting
or that a continuous display of flow-
ers may be obtained without any at-
tention, is wrong. At the same time,
to control insects and weeds and
Perennial plants in blooms for nearly
six months of the year is not easy,
but is well worth while.
At this time of the year, when the
flower: beds then have adorned the
borders of thegarden during the
summer season are bare, the though-
ts of those who really love flowers
dwell on the success or failure of the
past season, and plans for improve-
ment for next year are made.
There is something that may be
done this fall to protect perennial
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plants from the attacks of diseases
and inseets. Many species of insects
or diseases winter on or under the
leaves left 011 flower beds, under
clumps of plants, or on weeds along
fences, ditches, and hedges. A
thorough cleaning at this time will
destroy an incalculable number of
bisects or germs of diseases, and
owing to lack of shelter, will leave
the remainder of the insects unable
to withstand the winter. It will also
prevent the hatching of thousands of
eggs and spores which had been laid
of the stents or leaves, Use the
rake, if necessary. Be sure to gather
and burn all leaves and weeds, and
examine the fruit trees and flower-
ing shrubs for dry or broken branch-
es. Cut out such branches and burn
them.
This fall -cleaning of flower beds,
gardens, trees and shrubs, will pre-
vent the damage done by insects and
diseases, greatly reduce expenditures
of time and stoney, and will ensure
better flowers and more of them next
'year.
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