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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-10-01, Page 3'THURS., OCT. 1, 1936 GLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE S WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE GAY NINETIES Ho. You Remember What Happened During The Last Decade Of The Old Century? Prom The News -Record, Sept. 30th, 1896: Potatoes, tomatoes and late grapes were somewhat injured by the frost of late 'last week. One would almost be compelled to arrive at t h e conclusion that Dr. Shaw has . just cause to recover da- mages from some unknown person for the X -Ray photo in Beesley's show window. Messrs. Lack. Kennedy, Ogle Coo- per and A. Morrish were in Seaforth Monday and witnessed the champion baseball match between the Goderich and Gorrie-W roxeter clubs Large congregations were present Sundaylast in t. Pauls church on S to take part t n the annual Thanks- giving services. Special services in connection with the 19th anniversary of the dedica- tion of the Ontario Street Methodist church were held this week. On Sun- day services were conducted in the morning by the Rev. A. Stewart, B. A. of Willis Presbyterian church and in the evening by Rev. R. Millyard of the Rattenbury street Methodist church. On Monday evening a Birth- day Party was held, when about three hundred sat down to tea in the base- ment .. A large birthday calve was cut and distribrited . After tea the people retired to .the auditorium. Ap- propriate addresses were delivered by Revs. Harris, Millyard, and Stewart .. there was a solo by Mrs. Wall,' a chorus by the full choir, a duet by Mrs. Wall and Miss Couch and a quartette by Messrs. Murch and Har- land and Mrs. B. J:.Gibbings and Miss Hamilton ... A birthday would hardly be complete without a pre- sent, at the conclusion of the pro- gram the pastor produced and placed upon the pulpit a handsme new pul- pit Bible presented b y Mrs. John Gibbings and Miss Hattie Shipley. The proceeds of the entertainment amounted to $63. (The New Era slipped at this time and failed to enclose a copy of the paper for Oct. 2nd .You will have to wait Until next week for news from the 9th, which follows Sept. 25th,. 1896.—Ed) When The Present Century Was Young " From The News -Record, Oct 5th,' • 1911: Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Pattison have. moved to Brucefield, where the for- mer entered upon his new duties as station agent, on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. John Ransford and Dr. and Mrs. Shaw are in Sault Ste. Marie this week where the gentlemen are at- tending the annual meeting o f the Canadian Ticket Sellers' Association. • The Dominion Government has an- nonced Monday, Oct. 30th as Thanks- giving Day. A qiuet wedding took place in On- tario street parsonage yesterday morning when Miss Sophia Stone- house of town was united in marriage with Mr. Harvey Johns of Tucker- smith. The ceremony was perform- ed by the Rev. T. Wesley Cosens. From The New Era, Oct. 5th, 1911: Collegiate Field Sports on Friday of this week. • Mrs .McHardy Smith, leader and organist;of Willis church, entertained the members of the choir Wednesday evening at her home. McDonald —In Clinton, on Sept. 28th, J. J .McDonald, aged 48 years. Ryder—In Clinton, on Sept. 29th, Mrs. Joseph Ryder, in her 66th year. Fisher—In Clinton, on Oct. lst, Henry Valentine Fisher, aged 2 6 years and 5 months. On Wednesday noon a fearful acci- dent happened at Blyth G.T.R. station when E. E. Rousseau, shoe traveller from Toronto, tripped over some par- cels as he tried to make the train and his feet were thrown under the wheels. His left leg has had to be amputated below the knee; while an effort is being made to save part of the right foot. WHAT OTHER 'NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING IT IS SURPRISING It is surprising what an aeroplane can do. To a little mining settlement in the fay north an aeroplane brought a cow so that there would be fresh milk for the few children there. —The Toronto Star. THE REASON The reason why so .many men do not care to work and would rather remain idle is often due to the fact that in many instances they were not trained to work when they were young. Work is a habit with the human race. Naturally man does not care to do hard work. The boy who is raised to young manhood without ever having had the discipline of hard work, faces life at a disadvantage. He has been deprived of the most valu- able part of his youthful training. —The Listowel Banner. WHAT ABOUT THE WEATHER? We have been told that the wea- ther on the twenty-first of Septem • ber sets the standard of weather for the next few weeks—or is it months? Well, the weather on the twenty- first of September, which was Mon- day last, was just about perfect not hot, not cold, no frost, and there was bright, warm sunshine all day long. So we are quite prepared and will, be happy to get that kind of weather for the next few weeks or the next few months. We couldn't do any- thingbetter ifwe had the making of it in our own hands. Which we haven't. But what we can do is to enjoy the present weather to the full. Forsake indoors, and live out• Watch nature do her fall housecleaning, her paint- ing , and her decorating,: and be mighty glad we live in this favored part of old Ontario. —The Seaforth Expositor. • HOUSEHOLD PERILS Over twenty-eight thousand deaths have resulted from accidents in the. home within a year in the United States and Canada. The number of major and minor injuries, involving a huge aggregate medical expense and loss of working time, are beyond, computation. Most of the accidents in homes are preventable. They result from falls, poisons, cuts, burns, escaping gas, electrocution. They can be prevent- ed by such measures as standing on step ladders instead of rickety, un- steady or weak chairs, b y clearly labelling bottles in themedicine chest, by keeping stairways clear of par- cels, books, and so on -in other words, by exercise of simple common sense. It seems high time we began to employ that common sense. We feel a great deal of concern ov- er the highway accident toll. ` Yet motor accidents kill less than a fifth more persons than household acci- dents.. When will we become home - accident conscious? —Kincardine Review -Reporter: yw 44. H'v tr AN INTERESTING TRAVEL STORY Trip to South America Described 44 s ":MH} ..+f R 44.a l +Hi f a4:4-+ieieie .HT fir .4 + 1.s+' + . 4 . f 1 14-4H . —44.+H. r Miss Edmeston, who visited re- cently in Huron, her old home coun- ty, writes interestingly of her trip back to her Mission _field in Buenos Aires: S.S. Delmundo, Aug. 1, 1936. Dear Folks: As you see I am resorting to the carbon paper plan again to - tell you about this trip. I hope you will par- don that and the color of the paper I am using. It is thinner than any- thing else I have at hand, and there- for better for making copies. Suppose I better go back to the be- ginning to tell you about things. We left Philadelphia about 5 o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of July. It was sizzling hot, but we had a very comfortable trip, thanks to an air- conditioned train. What a comfort they are for a trip like that at this season of the year. `I think they are about the finest think that has come into existence in the five years that we have been away. . We arrived in New Orleans b about the follow- ing evening and there the comfort of coolness ended for the time being, for of course it was hot, hot there at this time of year, and hot with that muggy kind of heat that is so oppressive. But we had a nice large room with electric fans, so we man- aged to exist and do the things that were necessary and even a bit of shopping. We did not attempt any sight seeing. That morning we got our things together and came on board about eleven o'clock. It was nice to find a big bunch of mail waiting for us and flowers in our cabin. The boat sailed promptly at one -thirty and we were gladto get started down the river to get a lit- tle breeze which gave a little relief from the heat of -the city. We read some of our mail Inst thing, then after lunch we unpacked our tidings and got settled in our cabin. We thought we better do that at once in case we should not feel so well when we got out on the gulf. It took us until about eight in the evening to go down the river. A pilot had brought us that far, and as we stood on deck we saw the pilot boat come alongside, to get him, and watched him climb down the side of our bunt and get on it. With that we sort of. felt as if the last link . with home were broken for the time being.. We found our cabin comfortably cool in spite of the fact that it is on the land side, much more comfort- able than the one we had coining up. The reason is that going down we face the trade winds all the way in- stead of having them behind us. That gives us more ,breeze` "everywhere. We were rather disappointed to find that we were to have another young woman in the cabin with us, as they are really only fitted up for two, and are very crowded with three. But she proved to be very considerate and we have gotten along very well af- ter all. She got off at Rio, so now we can spread ourselves a bit more. There was a full passenger list thistime, as you would gather from our having someone in the cabin with us. There were 36 when we started out, including 13 kiddies. The lat- ter ranged in age from one and a half to nine years, and were all boys but three. So you may imagine that we have had rather lively doings at times. Robbers seemed to be their favorite game, and from the amount of shooting that went on one could well imagine that we had gotten on board a pirate ship rather than a pro- saic Delta liner. Some of the passen- gers did little but sit round and grouch about the noise the kiddies were making. I suppose it might have bothered -so too if I had been very tired. As it was I quite enjoy- ed them except occasionally when I was trying to write or do something of the kind, I did wish they were in Timbuctoo temporarily, for their noise was not exactly conducive to concentration, and the boat is so small that there was little place to isolate them or escape them. But we became very fond of some of them and were sorry when they left at Rio. Comparative .calm reigns now although we still have three of the IF MAN IS THE WEAKER SEX Dr. Edgar' V. Allen, of the Mayo clinic at Rochester, Minn., asserts that mean—not woman, is the weaker sex. Maybe, in some quarters, that will be regarded as a compliment to women, but the scientists are going to keep harping on that one string until men believe it; then, women, look out! If man is the weaker sex, he will reason, why should he have to go out in the world and take home the ba- con ? acon? If there must be a neighbor- hood fight why should he take the blackeye? If there should be a war why should he be the one to shoulder the gun and march away in hobnail- ed ill-fitting shoes? Why should he be Rut in the position where he would have to advertise he no longer would be responsible for the debts of some woman? Why should he assume re- sponsibility for payments on the fam- ily motor car, the interest op the home loan, the taxes? If he is of the weaker sex, and in- dustrious investigators are trying to.. prove it, why shouldn't he simply throw his bat into the air, dance a hornpipe and shout to the stronger sex: "Hop to it, sisters, it's all yours?" "Why not? Well, the best 'reason in the : world. The pride that has been built through centuries of mis- guided belief that he was the''strong- er, therefore the. natural protector. of woman, will hold him fast on down through the future centuries, dumbly striving to keep •rip appearances and. save his face. He may' gradually learn that he holds a poor hand, that it is made up chiefly of deuces and ,treys, but he will try to play it on out. . He may learn eventually that the one woman he knows best has him bested in every way, but he'll fi- gure that is a freak manifestation and go on believing that, of course, woman is the weaker sex. If men were ',}Wore like women they would havetumbled to the truth long ago, but men seldom talk about their wives with other men.—Kansas. City Star. GOOD TO THINK ABOUT? These days when one is busy till liveliest. There are some interesting folks among our fellow, passengers, At our table we had a young woman from California, and a -young Italian plas- tic surgeon from Mexico. The latter speaks Spanish much morefluently than he does English so we've been brushing up our Spanish a bit by talking with him,` Then there was the Inspector Gen- eral of the Chinese Consulate and his family who were going to Rio. He is such an intelligent man and speaks English fluently. His wife seems. like such a charming cultured lady. She speaks English also but not so. well as her husband. They have three children. The youngest little boy has amused every one on board with his dramatic actions while at play. Then we • have had two missionary families of the Presbyterian church South. One of them with his fam- ily was returning to their work in the interior of Brazil: The others were a young couple with two tiny g p tots going out for the first time, al- so to the interior of Brazil. We found them such congenial folks and were sorry when they got off at Rio, for we enjoyed getting .to know them. These days have been spent as such days at sea usually are. It seems to make everyone very lazy, so I do not 'ho,*o to show for the time. Have been crocheting a bit; and have a blouse done all but the sleeves. As they are to be short I hope to finish it in the days that' remain before the trip is over. Have read some six or seven books and done a little writing. Aside from that the time has been spent playing shuffle board, ping pong, walking the deck, or just sitting in a deck chair looking out over the water. I never get tired of watching th e waves i n their ceaseless motion, and the changing colors on the water. The last' two Sunday mornings we've had a short religious service in the lounge. The two missionary men have taken turns directing it. The first Sunday one of the mission- ary wives had all the children togeth- er for a sort of Sunday school class. But she' found it hard to interest them all because of the difference in their ages. So last Sunday she ask- ed me to help out, and I took a group of the older ones and told them a Bible story while the talk was being given to the adults upstairs. dark loading corn it is a great com- fort to think of what is waiting in the house. Mother has been out seek- ing the biggest, juiciest and beat flavored apples. We saw her just this minute. She has just made the real thing in crust for a deep apple pie. In spite of all modern inven- tions, and such, mother knows how to make and how to bake piecrust, the thick, flaky, fragrant, delicious sort. She knows how to prepare those apples. Then the miraculous way she can season. She does not use any of those prepared affairs, but a mixture of everything that is good, a royal compound that her mother" told her about. Then there's the cream: We had almost forgotten to mention the forerunner of the pie, the wonderful scalloped potatoes and the cold beef cut just right. Of course there is the homemade bread and the butter. Say, -you town un- fortunates! don't .you wish you had. supper at our place? But, then, you haven't our super sauce, a rousing appetite that would shame a wolf, Country life for us. -Exeter Times -Advocate. on the other . For example the roast prime rib of beef was called roast shark rig au turbine grease, and the creamed spinach was creamed sea weed, etc. That caused lots of fun,: After dinner fancy diplomas were handed to those who had been duly received as loyal subjects of King Neptune. - The night before we arrived in. Rio we had the captain's dinner. Every- one dressed' up for that in his best bib and tucker, and we had some ex- tra nice things to eat. We arrived ih Rio on the 29th ac- cording to schedule. Unfortunately it was foggy all morning so we did not get, to enjoy the view of that wonder city at its best. ' But even so it was marvellous of course. We sat out on deck most of the morning, enjoying the view of the mountains of 13razil as we sailed along the coast, and so were ready :to welcome the first sight of Sugar Loaf and Corcovado as they came into view. In the midst of it we had to rush down for lunch. Everyone ate it as hur- riedly as possible and when we came back up we found we were almost in- to the harbour, and in full view of the city, and the two mountains, with the figure of Christ clearly dis- tinguishable on the top of Corcovado. We docked about twelve o'clock but by the time the officials had come on board and gone it was after tw o before we could get off. We only had a little over two hours in the city as the boat was to sail at five. We went ashore and improved what time we had to renew our acquain- tances with the interesting places along Avenida Branco, get some let- ters mailed, etc. The queer Brazil- ian money with all its reis and mil- reis rro longer seems quite so puz- zling to us as it once did. We were back to the boat by five, -but did not sail until six -thirty. Dinner was served immediately after we started, but I did not go down at all. We had had tea in the city, and I decided that one can eat dinner any night, whereas it is only rarely that there is the chance to watch the lights of the Rio harbour. Truly it was a wonderful sight. It was dark by that time of course, and the figure of the Christ was lighted just before be left as •well as the millions of lights all round the harbour. T shall never for- get the sight of that lighted figure. The mountain was so dimly outlined that one hardily noticed it at all, and It seemed as if that gleaming figure of the Christ with arms outstretch- ed in blessing, werepoised in mid airlooking down upon the great city beneath. I recalled some facts about life there, the story of the woven in glass cages, for example, and thought how terribly folks here as elsewhere need to become more aware of that figure and its significance for the lives of men. Then it came over me with 'a new thrill, that that was pre- cisely the mission upon which we were going, to point out to the folks the glorious light of the gospel as it shone in the face of Jesus Christ. As wesailed along we passed so close to Sugar Loaf that it almost seemed as if one could reach out a hand and touch that massive bulk in the dark- ness. Then there was the circle of lights known as the necklace ,and as we passed round Sugar Loaf we came to that other circle almost as beauti- ful that we knew was Cpacalfana. It was all wonderful and we stayed out watching it until driven within by the terrific wind that was blowing. Then we looked for a while longer from our cabin window. At about the same time yesterday we entered the harbour of Santos. It is beautiful too. I think the only reason that folks have not raved a- bout it so much is because one usu- ally sees Rio first, and that sort of eclipses it, for of course nothing can quite compare with Rio. But Santos is a long narrow harbour with shores decked in the gorgeous rich green of tropical vegetation, and great royal palms silhouetted against a back- ground of mountains in the distance. For there are mountains here too. The difference is that they do not stalkright down, into the center of the city in all their stateliness and grandeur as Sugar Loaf and Cor- covado do in Rio. Here too are pic- turesque stucco houses which add color to the scene. We had a little longer time here, but not long enoughto go up to the beautiful city of Sao Paulo, as we had hoped to do. We went ashore, tramped the streets and looked into the funny lit- tle stores that are open to the street, and even found an American five and ten... But the city itself is flat, ugly and uninteresting, being really only the port of Sao Paulo. We sailed at 7.30 and once more we sat, out watching the harbour lights, that were almost as beautiful as those of Rio, except that here there was no lighted figure ,'of the Christ. For, the most part the weather has been pleasant throughout the trip. Some days the old Atlantic has been as calm as a fishpond, and has sparkled and danced in the sunshine, the deep blue of its waters contrast- ing with the azur of .the sky. But most of the time there has been some roll. The last two or three days of our first week out there was enough to make us feel squeamish, if not really isek. We have not had that experiencethis time, for which we are very glad. Thursday morning, however, we wakened about four o'clock to find the boat reallydoing things,, lurching like a bucking bron- cho. That continued all morning, and the ,few new passengers who had gotten on at Rio the night before (Continued on page 7) About the only excitement there has been to break"the monotony of things was the initiation ceremony held the day we crossed the equator. King Neptune carne on board, and with his queen and officials paraded the ship summoning ail those who were about to enter his kingdom for the first time (those who had not crossed the equator before) to ap- pear before him on the lower deck. He and his officials were stripped to the waist, had their bodies and faces blackened and .smeared with red, and were decked out in straw skirts, headgear, etc. ' His secretary carried a long clapper affair with which he noisily spanked anyone who did not move quickly enough to suit his majesty's pleasure. Everyone went down to the lower deck, those to be initiated were in bathing suits mostly. They were brought before the kingin turn blindfolded and ac- cusations were read against them by his secretary and suitable punish- ments suggested to be inflicted be- fore they should be allowed to enter his realm. The accusations had been. written'by one of the passengers and were really quite clever, showing that he had observed the character- istics of the folks with some care. For example one lady who had com- plained a good deal about things in general was accused of complaining that the wind blew too much, the ocean rolled too much, the heavens wept too much, and the moon was not full enough . A young chap who apparently has a good appetite was accused of devouring all the ships, rations and the king was advised to have him thrown 'overboard to save the lives of the other passengers who would certainly starve to death if this fellow wereallowed to go on de- vouring food at such a rate. After the accusation was read the punish- ment was administered to the person in question. He or she was made to kneel and kiss the queen's toe, sit on a "cake of ice, have pieces of ice put down his back and front, eat some tasteless stuff prepared by the cook for the purpose, have a gooy mixture of flour and water smeared over his face, and have an egg bro- ken over his head or mouth, then the cloth was taken off his eyes and, he was made to jump into the swim- ming pool to get cleaned up. Of- course fcourse they did not do quite all of this to' everyone especially' the lad- ies, and they did not do anything to those who did not want to take part. But most folks did, and was lots of fun especially for those of us who had been across before and could watch it. Finally when everybody had been initiated the king and queen and his officials also jumped into the pool. That evening we had a Nep- tune dinner, at whica all the items on the menu . were given different names, at least they were written that way on one side of the menu card and with their proper names This is Fire Prevention Week. One never knows where fire will strike. Every minute of the day, ev- ery. day in the year, - over $100.00 worth of property is destroyed in Canada. You can do your part in minimizing this terrific drain upon our human and physical resources by observing the following ten rules: (1) Keep matches in a closed metal ontainer, inaccessible to children. Handle their carefully and dispose of hem properly, making certain they are extinguished before you let them eave your hand. c (2) Keep all gas lights and open flames away from woodwork or other combustible material. Do not allow curtains to, hang near these (lanes for the wind may blow them into con- tact with the fire. (3) Always disconnect electric ir- ons, toasters, heaters and similar ap- pliances from t h e sockets when through using them. Never use any- substitutes nysubstitutes for approved fuses. (4) Inspect, clean ancl repair your chimneys and flues before Winter ar- rives. (5) Place hot ashes in metal cans:: and dump them in places free from. combustible material' (6) Promptly collect` and remove - all refuse and rubbish. Keep base- ments asements and spaces unders stairways clean. ('7) Do not start fires in stoves with. benzine, gasoline or kerosene. (8) If gasoline or benzine is ever used fen cleaning purposes, do the• work out of doors. (9)Do not keep oily refuse or rags in the house. Expose them to the. air. (10) Inspect your property fre- quently. =SNAPS410T CtJL IT'S ALL A MATTER OF HOW tA;. MUCH LIGHT For nearby subjects when the light is not very bright as in the picture above, use a wide lens opening. But for distant scenes, like this to the left, use a small lens open- ing. BECAUSE modern cameras and modern film make it possible for us to achieve happy results with very little knowledge of how our cameras function, many of us do not bother to find out, but we will more, often get better pictures if we know enough about our cameras to under- stand what they're up to. Any camera is simply a light -tight box or chamber, with a film at one end and a bit of optical glass, called a lens, at the other. Add to that a contrivance for admitting light un- der control into the box, through the lens to the Cm, and you have the es- sentials of a camera. The size of the lens and the extent to which it is opened are important. When the lens opening is large, a lot of light is let into the camera to re- cord the picture on the film. That's all very well, but lenses do not do their best "wide open", in giving sharp images of all objects both near and far. When you want sharp, clean-cut detail from foreground to distance, as in a good landscape pie, ture, you have to use a small lens opening;• when you are interested only in picturing an individual or a compact group, as in the dog pic- ture,above, you can safely use a relatively larger opening if you fo- cus carefully. Indistinct detail be. yond doesn't matter so much, in fact often helps to accentuate the prim cipal subject. In virtually all cameras there is some means of changing the size of the lens opening. In most box cam- eras you pull out a little slide at the top of the camera. In most folding cameras there is another type of ad- justment called a diaphragm, with which a greater variety of openinge can be obtained. 1n most diaphragm types, the ma- jor settings are shown by numerals • a which have a meaning in terms of the ratio between the diameter of the lens opening and the distance from the lens to the film. In desig- nating these settings, the letter f. is used. When you see that a picture was made- with the lens at f.11, it means that the opening of the lens was 1/l1th of the lens -to -film dis- tance. It happens that 1.11 is a good, average opening, neither too large nor too small. In fact some inexpen- sive nexpensive cameras have a fixed opening, or aperture, of about that ratio - Smaller openings,, 3.16 or f.22, for - example, cut down the amount of light entering the lens. Consequent- ly,•given the same light conditions,. longer exposures are required. That brings us to another gadget which, in terms of . time, also con- trols the amount of light that enters the lens—the shutter. For most ordi- nary snapshots, a shutter that opens and closes in about 1/25th second is entirely adequate. In fact, this shut-• ter speed, coupled with an opening of 1.11, is so nearly right for average• outdoor conditions that it is a kind' of magic formula. Shutter speeds faster than 1/50th second are seldom needed except for pictures of rapidly moving objects; and then with a larger lens opening; otherwise, not enough light would be admitted. Lenses, by the way, are rated ac- cording to the largest opening at which they work. You' hear camera. fanstalking about 1.6.3 lenses, 3.4.5 lenses, and even f.2.e lenses. These• "fast" lenses are wonderful things;. they'll get pictures under the poor- est kind of light and they do have thatextra speed when you need it. But even so, they all work better if • the subject has adequate light with the resulting opportunity to stop. down (use a smaller opening) for • the sake of sharper detail. gg JOHN VAN GUILDER.