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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1924-08-07, Page 2Ask For GREEN T,: e than A H489 It is much more de b the finest Japan, Young H sora » Sol' everywhere. or Gunpowder. —ev'e Y'J'di'' FREE SA PLE of GREEN TEA !JP033 REQUEST. "SALAMI," TORONTO Abe t the House LIVELY PICNIC GAMES.. The games and contests at a picnic should include not only the old regu- lers; but a lot of mind and body re- laeing bits of fun. Arrange the pro - grim so that everyone Is interested, not only the younge • people, but also the settled middle-aged fathers and mothers and the grandmothers too. Start with some sort of scramble that will liven things up—a peanut rush is as clean and good as anything. Buy these by the bushel and they will not be so terribly expensive. If the picnic is large—for church or school —have several people in different places throw the peanuts while the children run. This makes the scramble a little more difficult and therefore more interesting. Then try these games and contests: Cookie Chase—String linos between the trees and hang round, hard cook- ies from them by short pieces of string. Then, with hands behind them and blindfolded, watch the contestants "chase" their cookies. The string be- ing pliable certainly makes the cookie jump, and once lost from the teeth it is mighty hard to find again. The one who first succeeds in eating his cookie wins the prize. Picnic Hopscotch.—This should be played in pairs—a man and woman, or girl and boy, taking the hops into the different squares together, arm in arm, one hopping on the right foot, the other an the left. If it is a beach picnic, mark out the squares on the sand; if in the woods, outline them with small stones on a smooth piece of grass. Play it like the old-fashioned game, throwing the fiat pebble first into num- ber one and hopping after it and out of the square again. The first couple to go through all nine without falling or pulling each other down wins, of course Bubble Race—Don't forget the kid- dies. Give them all the laughter they want in a soap -bubble race, encourag- ing them to blow as large ones as possible and giving a prize for the one which blows highest in the air before bursting, Blind and Halt Race—This race must be in pairs also. One is blind- folded, the other must lean upon the blind, walking only on one foot, drag- ging the other or hopping. Line the couples up, give the word and see which couple reaches the goal first. The poor blind one naturally goes slowly in caution and they do not make any great headway—unless recklessly—with such dragging weight. However, it is their privilege to take any chances they wish and they usually do, making the race ex- tremely funny. Water Battle—Most picnics are held pear some place where bathing is possible, so there should be some sort of water contests. Choose sides and line up in the water, knee deep, fac- ing each other. Then give the word and watch the battle. With the hands only, each side splashes the other, try- ra.•ws�ru; ncaaz.. AERO CUSHION INNER TIRES Composed of Pure Para Rub- ber, Highly Porous. PUNCTURES BLOW OUTS Rides Easy as Air. Doubles Mileage of Casings. WRITE FOR PARTICULARS. Aero Cushion Inner Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. Wingham - Ont. ISSUE No. 32—'24. ing to make it so terrific that the contestants must turn away from its force, If a player falls or turns about, the judge blows a whistle and he is out of the contest. It will dwindle down to two, and as these take their last stand it 3s bound to be hilarious. After some tub races for the chil- dren, a game of prisoner's base and a lollypop hunt—.the candy being wrap- ped securely in waxed paper and hid- den in trees for the children to find— gather your picnic crowd around a fire in the evening and while marsh- mallows toast, hold a whopper con- test, a prize going to the one who can tell the biggest story of wild life on something which has happened on the farm. USING THE WILD FRUITS. Ylriid Plum Conserve -5 lbs. pitted plums, 2 lbs. seeded raisins, 5 lbs. sugar, 8 oranges, juice of 2 lemons. Slice the oranges in thin slices, crosswise, removing seeds. Grind raisins in meat chopper. Put fruit, sugar and lemon juice in kettle with just enough water to keep fruit from sticking, bring to boiling point and simmer gently until the fruit is clear and thick and of the consistency of marmalade. Put in hot, sterilized glasses or jars, cool and seal. Wild Plum Catsup -5 qts. wild plums, 4 lbs. sugar, 1 pt, vinegar, 1 qt. boiled water, 13h tbsp. cinnamon, 1 tbsp. allspice, 1. tbsp. cloves. Prepare the plums as for sauce, first boiling up with soda and then pitting. Boil vinegar, sugar, water and spices, then add pitted plums, bring to boiling point and simmer gently for about thirty minutes. Put in hot, sterilized jars or bottles and seal. High Bush Cranberries—In Sep- tember the high -bush cranberries be- gin to ripen. These should be picked under -ripe as they then make better jelly. Carefully wash andpick over the berries and put in a kettle with just enough water to cover. Cook gently until the fruit is tender. Strain through jelly bag. Add an equal am- ount of sugar to the strained juice, bring to the boiling point and sin - mer gently until it jellies. Pour in hot, sterilized glasses and cool and seal. PREVENT SUMMER COMPLAINT. Young mothers must remember that milk must continue to be the staple article of diet for a child in his sec- ond year; in fact, it remains so for long afterward. No child over a year old should be given the bottle. He should be taught to drink from a cup. But it is just as important to have the milk clean and sweet as when he took it by the nipple route. The pos- sibilities for damage by impure milk are not all put away when the bottle is abolished. It is neither necessary nor advis- able to maintain an exclusive sulk diet in the second year. The baby may have well -cooked cereals; oat- meal, cornmeal, rice, prepared wheat. Ile may have some bread after it is twenty hours stale, and graham crackers are allowed in reasonable amount. Gravies that are not too rich are allowed on bread; and chicken, mutton, or beef broth with well cooked rice may be served. As he reaches the later months of the year, he may be allowed an egg, poached or soft boiled, and a small portion of baked potato. To add to the joy of living, you may give him puddings of cornstarch, custard, ride, tapioca, and he may also eat stewed prunes, apple sauce and sweet oranges. No, I.said nothing about candy. In spite of all these precautions your baby may develop symptoms of the dreaded summer complaint.Give him enough castor oil toclear the bowels thoroughly. Depending some- what upon conditions this may be from one to two tablespoonfuls; don't overdo it. Stop all food, and give barley water for twenty-four hours. Now and then,'I find a very sick baby who frets himself into a worse state because not allowed to eat. In such cases, I compromise on unflavored gelatin, which ,isusually relished. If the baby is better at the end of one day, you may begin giving a mixture of barley water and milk. If he is not markedly better you have waited long enough. Get the best doctor within reach. HANDKERCHIEFS I MADE. I had in my possession ,several White voile . and linen blouseswhose Y style had become obsolete maby sea- sons ago. Some were worn around the armholes, some had frayed edges, others had mended collars. However, the fronts,backs, and parts of the sleeves were good. Beginning by pulling a thread to get a straight edge, I cut a ten -inch square from each of the fronts.' In some cases these had bits of drawn work and in others small 'fragments of embroidery. r bought a spool of No. 80 white thread and .six yards each - of two patterns of the tiniest lace edging I could buy. I rolled the edges of the squares I had cut from the old- fashioned blouses and whipped in the narrow edges, and found myself the possessor of several dainty handker- chiefs of which I am quite proud. SAVE YOUR HANDS. Cheap white crepe paper napkins cut into squares a quarter the size of a napkin and hung on a hook near the stove will save your hands if used to grease pans. They can no ;burned after using. MY ENAMELED VASE. I had in my possession. an 'old br'own•and-white vase with very good lines, but it had an absolutely impos- sible red rose painted on one sido. I knew nothing of china painting, nor was the vase valuable enough to justify spending even a small amount of money. However, I had some blue enamel, bought at the ten -cent store for my oil stove. I mixed a little black paint with it to soften it into a pretty gray and "flowed it onto the surface of the vase. It dried quickly, covered all the inartistic properties of the vase and left an object not unlike the new high -lustre vases sold in art shops. Rare Variety of Game Fish Being Introduced Into New Brunswick. At the request of a number of pub- lic bodies of St. John, New Brunswick, the Department of Marine and Fish- eries undertook to establish the Euro- pean brown trout in loch Lomond near St. John. The first eggs for this pur- pose were obtained in January, 1921, from the United States Bureau of Fisheries. A small number of the fry from these eggs have been retained in the ponds at the hatchery, and in the autumn of 1923, when the fish were a little over two years old, a few of the larger and better 'developed yielded some 5,000 eggs, which aro undergo-; ing Incubation. The eggs of the brown trout are not easily obtained inAmeri- ca, and in continuation of the stocking of loch Lomond, sone 200,000 Loch Leven trout eggs, a variety closely re- lated to the brown trout, were obtain- ed through the United States Bureau of Fisheries in exchange for Atlantic salmon eggs. The Loch Leven trout eggs were secured Prom wild trout captured in the streams of Montana and are the result of small distribu- tions of such fry made some years ago. An equal number of Loch Leven trout eggs are undergoing incubation. in the Banff hatchery, and the result- ant fry will be distributed in selected waters of the Prairie Provinces. Against a Mellon Tax. "Yo' ain't goin' t' vote Republican no more?" "No—ain't yo' read.nuiiin' yit 'bout dat Mellon tax?" o The greatest calling for a woman is to be a homemaker.—Mrs. Wintring- ham, M.P. For Sore Feet—Minard's Liniment, ro hers Under the Skin BY EUGENE JONES. PART III. Oblivious of odds, bent solely upon reaching the bunk house and dancer, Cameron grabbed by the collar the first man who blocked his path and sent him reeling among his comrades. There was a mad moment of con- fusion, of swirling figures, during which the music •continued and also O'Grady's dance.. Then those nearest the bunk house fell back as Cameron emerged from the melee, his pajama top in shreds. He turned, " facing them. "Shut up!" he commanded. They obeyed out of curiosity. With the cessation of the music only the dull thump of; feet from the roof broke the silence. Cameron's face was set, his voice metallic. For the first time the men felt his presence. They had ignored his orders and his threats, his state- ments and his 'promises; but now, standing there in his ripped jacket with the blood dripping from his knuckles where they had come into violent contact with somebody's teeth, he spoke a language they understood. "Since I've been up here," he began, "you men have lain down on your job. You've done as little work as possible. You've acted like a lot of kids kept in after school. And always you've man- aged to put me in the wrong, to make me wonder what was the matter with me. But this time you've gone too far. Up there on the roof is a drunken fool. I'll 'tend to him later. "I've tried being decent to you; I've tried bribing you, and now if it's nec- essary I'm going to try my fists. I shall dock every man on the pay roll for this. Anyone deciding they want satisfection can step forward: There's plenty of you husky enough to think you can take It out of my hide. All right, come on!" Nobody stirred. It was the old truth—mob strength, individual weak- ness. "Very well," went on Cameron, "that's settled. Now one more thing: I did not discharge Mr. Robertson; I didn't ask for his position. I admire his. And above all, I wish he had his job back—this particular job. Why the railroad saw fit to retire him and send me up here in his place is the railroad's affair. But I can as- sure you, now that I'm here I'm going to build this right of way if I have to send all the way to Mexico for a bunch of greasers to help me." Cameron motioned toward the bunk houses. "Beat it! Turn in! The rest of the party's private.,' The crowd hesitated, still more curious than angry. They wanted very much to see what was going to happen to Mike O'Grady, solemnly continuing his buck -and -wing dance. The engineer took a forward step. The nearest man, one in direct range of Cameron's fists, moved haste ily back among his companions.. Others, finding themselves at the front, followed suit, until the entire gang had developed a backward im- petus little better than retreat. In a surprisingly short time each man was slouching off toward his hunk. Why, had they obeyed? Nobody knew, least of all Cameorn. • The coast clear, the engineer fixed his eyes on O'Grady. "Come down!" he ordered. " "Won't!" said Mike. Oi'rn—dan- chin'!" Very grim about the jaw, the en- gineer followed in O'Grady's footsteps over the eaves via a packing case and on the roof. 'Crossing to the soli- tary dancer, Cameron halted in front of him, "Stop that, O'Grady." Mike did a double shuffle, "'Tis a foine, large avenin', sor," he grinned. The engineer waited for no mere. The party 'of Scotch editors, who are making a coast -to -watt tour of Canada to investigate the opportunities here for immigrants, are shown dur- ing their stay in Toronto on their .way to the western provinces. Catching O'Grady by the shoulders, he shoved• him toward the improvised ladder. As he found himself propel- led from his position of prominence, Mike made a sketchy attempt to con- tinue the dance; then he surrendered to certain .pugilistic desires always clamoring for expression. The pair stumbled across the roof, locked in each other's anything but friendly embrace. They hurtled to the ground, a distanceof possibly seven feet. Providence had arranged the remains of a sand pile where they landed, else neither would have been in a condition to continue the battle. Cameron got to his feet and jerked the befuddled foreman. upright. "Put up your hands!" he warned. "Meek" gurgled Mike around, a mouthful of sand; but he put up his hands with a dramatic flourish. The engineer's fist caught the other on the point of his chin, sending him spinning backward. But the blow, delivered with sufficient force .and accuracy to knock out the average man, merely sobered O'Grady. Ile gathered himself, then came in with a rush. Had he penetrated Cameron's guard, had he managed to find a satisfactory target for his flay- ing arms, the engineer would have suffered; but Cameron knew how to box—thanks to lessons at college and practice in Mexico. He was . actually sorry for the charging windmill which was O'Grady. He side-stepped, sent home a stunning blow with his left. Mike folded neatly in the middle and once more sought the sand. But he was not done. Oh, no, such strength as his, goaded by whiskey and the thought that a man of lighter weight was whipping him, drove him on. Eventually Mike did not get up., "Begorrah, 'tis done Oi, am! 'C'm on, b'ys, bury th' corpse!" Cameron stood above him, "Sure you've had enough?" In spite of the terrible punishment he had received O'Grady's eyes twinkled, "'Tis th' most painful drunk Oi was iver on, sor; h'ist the flag, Moike O'Grady's yours!" "All right," agreed the engineer. "If that's the case, go down to the cook shanty and get some coffee. When you can count up to a hundred with- out missing, come over to my tent," After a while—quite a while—Mike arrived at the tent, the lower por- tion of his red flannels conceealed by trousers. His face was swollen, his right eyes closed. The engineer, directing hint to one of the chairs, Ht his pipe. "Go on," he encouraged, "you can smoke if you want to." O'Grady produced a'cor•ncob of ob- vious age. "'Tis a wicked pair av fists ye swing, Mister Cameron,' he observed. "But if Oi'd been sober enough ter know Oi waz drunk, no fightin' would Oi 'ave done!" The engineer smiled. "Well, perhaps I had a slight advantage. Anyway, it's not your scrapping ability or your) .Rfier every meal/ A p2earvant wed agreeable sweet and a 1-a:s-8-i-keJiq• bease83ill ars weill. Good iter Occur, breatle and digestion,. %lakes ieie' next cigar tastier better. T'he engineer nodded, controlling his sudden flare of anger. "Go on." "Because the b'ys ave been swoatin' an' Workin' their whole domned loives. Because,; sor, the C. & W. can hire a hundred such as the loikes ay ye thot's studied th' books, easier than they can foind the mien ter do th' dotty work. Look here, sor, yer talkin' ebout bein' rewarded. Are ye av a moind thot the wages we draw pays .us fer riskin' our necks ivory day, year in an' year out? Who walks on thim shells in a cliff after a blast, not knowin 'whin th' path's goin' ter drop froinunder 'em? Who sets the fuses, lights 'ens, rides th' tie beams whin derrick swings 'em acrost a river? Beggin' yer pardon, sor, not youbut us—ivery mtiher's son av us! And why do we do It Sure Oi'll be after tellin'' ye; because, bedad, we want ter see the blanked trains as much as you l" Mike brought his fist down on his knee. "You and th' other gintlemen av th' profession is pullin' enough salary a month to keep niy old woman for a -year. But you ain't chancin' nothia'." He paused, suddenly em- barrassed. (To be concluded.) O ' "George used to kiss say hand, but 1 that was when he first knew me. He kisses s me right t now." g "A case of 'band to mouth; eh?" Minard's Liniment Heals Cuts. clog dancing I wish to discuss. I want to explain some things to you, Mike."1 He paused, looked the other between) the eyes. "And 1 want you to explain some things to me." "Yis, sor," agreed the foreman. "First," continued Cameron, "under- stand this: You are working for your wages; I 'am working for the satis- faction of building a railroad. When I see trains coming over the divide, then I shall be paid. Mike O'Grady,' the day you and the other men learn ' to look farther ahead than.. your wages, that day. work mn the C, & W. will boom. The company hands out my salary—that is the direct result of my efforts; but I am after some- thing else -something I am afraid you will never appreciate. "Now, feeling i(his way, how do you suppose the' aturplsde of the men im- presses me? I want to put this thing through, but I can't do it without you; nor apparently can I find a way . to make you turn to and help. Put your- self in my position: How, would you feel?" O'Grady did not answer for a lila- ment. • "Mister Cameron, if it's me fair an' honest opinion yo want, no harm in- tended, Oi'll tell ye the b'ys are worth • a dozen of ye!" When soured by disappointment, we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there be no blank leaf in . our book of life, Painful and disagree- able ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any sub- ject—Zimmermann. ub-ject.Zimmermann. Self -complacency means that a man is either too 'proud of his merits or unaware of his.' defects. Have Summer Hear This Winier AWarm house and acool . , cellar day'andnight the win- terthroulth: And a saving in your coal bills of from 7 / Ship your Cream to us and ob- / • A KELSEY WARM AIR GENERATOR in your cellar will ensurcthis. 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One of the 'most interesting place- names is Yellowhead Pass, one of the most famous of all Rooky Mountain passes., The pass takes its name from a spot, at its western entrance, where the Robson river coming south from Mount Robson joins the Fraser. Here was Tete Jaitne cache, or in English, Yel- lowhead cache. From being applied to the cache, the naive spread to the pries, ,the earliest name of which was the Leather pass, so' called because supplies of dressed moose and cariboo skins for mocassins, ropes, etc., were taken west by the fur -traders through thls gateway to New Caledonia, where leather was scarce. Tete Janne cache was known by this name in 1827, but the first clue to the meaning of the name is in "The North- west Passage by Land," a book pub- lished in 1865, describing the adven- turous journey of two English Uni- versity students (Milton and Cheadle) across Canada to the Pacific via the Yellowhead pass, The author of this book states that Tete Jaitne Cache_ was "so-called from being the spot chosen. by an Iroquois trapper, known by the sobriquet of the Tete Jaune or Yellow - head, tohide thefurshe obtained on the western side." The only •other printed reference to the origin of the name is in a letter to the Montreal Gazette in 1874 from Malcolm 'McLeod, whose father, John McLeod, was a figure of some note in the fur trade in the third decade of the nineteenth century. Piis diaries, letters and papers were in the posses- sion of the son. McLeod states that Tete, Jaune cache commemorates a French Canadian named Decoigne who cached his 'furs here. The statement reads as follows: "Teto'Jaune was so called from the'color of the hair -not infrequent amongst French Canadians. of Breton and Norman French, origin —of a enterprising French trapper, of the name of Decoigne, who used this' singularly appropriate bocallty—an Im- mense hollow, but comparatively level, of some 70 square miles in area, amongst the mountains there—for his "cache" or entrepot in his 'line of work." There is one person named Decoigne in fur trade annals: This is Francois Decoigne, whom John McDonald (one of the early fur traders, called to dis- tinguish him from others of the name "John McDonald of Garth") In his autobiography styles "a young Cana- dian gentleman from Berthier, M. De - coigne, a clever young man." He was employed in the fur trade In 1795 and we find him as a clerk in the North- west Company at Fort George on the North Saskatchewan river September 18, 1798, and in the same region in 1705. In 1804 he was in the Athabas- ka Department. In May, 1814, he was. in charge or Jasper House, Drule Lake, when Trenchers, the first man to des- cribe in a book the Jasper Park re- gion, came east from the Pacific coast. Later Decoigne transferred to the Hudson's Bay Company but continued to operate in the same district, name- ly, the Athabaska. Mirror Magic. - The cult of the mirror is easily one of the oldest in the world. We can !fardly believe that there was ever a time when a charming face went whol- ly unmirrored, however• prhnitive the medium of reflectionhadtobe. . Eye gazed entranced at' her own image reflected in a glassy pool; and we know how, long before the Inven- Lion of glass, the women of olcl Egypt, Greece, and Rome had their hand -mix Hors of polished metal—burnished discs of bronze or silver set in a more or less decorated frame. Some ‘of those ancient mirrors, em- ployed as they were in the service of beauty, were things of beauty iu them. selves. They had a kind of sacred character, too, aa symbols of the god- dess of beauty, Venus Aphrrodite, to whom; theirfair owners often dedi- cated them in the native hope that the goddess would' impart to the faces they. reflected something of her own matchless loveliness and fadeless youth, We need be in no doubt that the,wo idien of .those days valued their pereon al ci, and spent as much care on t as ever women do uow! •'cr is a tiling of mem, preservin Every old id cries. What a :L Tong et s arievwyr--' ghosts we might: see~Tn the metal. mirrors taken fro n Egyptian tombs, or in the palace irrors at Holyrood 'and Versailles, or in that curious old looking-glaceshown in the museum at Brfghton and said to have belonged to Nell Gwynne! Perhaps the old superstition that it is unlucky to break a mirror is not so very rldieulons after all. So much off ourselves seems • to pass into a mirror. Cable Laid 57 Years Ago. The laying of the first successful Atlantic telegraph cable was com- pleted fifty-seven' years ago. The men who have rendered the greatest service to the world asked nothing and gave everything.