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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1924-12-25, Page 2Quality H552 IS most appreciated in the rich delicious flavor. Try it today. th About e. sowczargommaw The match -making mother is one of those people whom we often meet in novels and at the cinema. We seldom see her in real life, . because such odium is attached: to the match- making mother that most women steer clear of the role, They wash their hands of all responsibility (and leave their daughters to shift for them- selves about getting husbands. This is wrong, Between the schem- ing mother who disposes of her daughter in marriage as if she were a slaveon the auction block, and the mother who leaves her daughter's ma- trimonial fate entirely :to chance, there is a wide field in which it is not only the province but the duty of a good mother to forward her child's happiness and well-being. It strange that so many mothers, post package secured by these rubber do not realize this, for nearly all wo- bands arrive in good condition. Par - h affined jelly glasses, if they have no men. v y even when the avenot t been .happily married themselves, believe in, tin covers, can be covered with circles marriage. They recognize it as vro-1 of papor heid in place by these rubber man's predestined place in life, the bands. Little daughter may use thein career in which she is most likely to find peace and contentment. Every woman wants her daughters to marry. She never feels safe about them until _they are married, and the first breath of relief that a mother draws from the time her baby girl is born is when she sees her walking out of the church door on the arm of her husband. This being the ease, why is getting her daughter married not a legitimate occupation for the mother? Why should not a mother use her wisdom and experience in trying to secure a good husband for her child? No mother has a right to use her influence to make her daughter marry any particular man just because he is a "good. catch." But she should use „her .own matrimonial experience and her own knowledge of men to guide her ,girl in making the right choice of A husband. Every woman knows that in affairs of the heart an ounce of, prevention is worth a pound of cure. There 4s no use in arguing with a girl in love, She is temporarily incapable of seeing anything in its true light. She is deaf to all reason. Girls marry the men with whom they are thrown in contact. Hence it . is the mother's duty to see that the men with whom her daughters associate are the kind she would welcome as her sons-in-law. The sensible mother does not take into her family a handsome young relative and throw him into daily as- sociation with her daughter, and then howl with horror when she finds that they have fallen in love with each ether and want to get married. NOT does she give the run of her house to some fascinating neer-do-well and lien weep with despair when her daughter announces her intention of marrying him despite all the warn- ings that are held up before her a6 to how such a marriage is sure to turn out. The managing mother prevents these catastrophes. Not believing in e marriage of cousins, she does not invite good-looking young kinsmen to ;hake their home with her. She freezes out the undesirables. The wise mother teaches her daughter that while love is the great deing 3n matrimony, It is not every- thing, and that a woman does not long love a husband who has not the solid qualitiee that command her re- ;pect. She teaches her that e. man who can make his wife a comfortable hiving will hold her affections longer than one who starves her and repeats Poetry to her. So, when the girl se- ects her life partner she does it in- telligently, instead of marrying the 9rst attractive man who strikes her faney. Men help their sons to start in business. Why ehowld notmothers help theirdaughter*? to marry'? That's the average girl's business lit lite. At+OID, CROWDING THE -WIN- DOWS. A few well -grown plants are mare beautiful i'n. the window garden than a compact mass can possibly be. I like to have every plant I grow show its individual beauty, which it cannot aro when crowded by others., Then, if We have to divide our 'attention too fypoelt no ,gyiant will get the personal *are that is se necessary to success, if yen want to fool the greatest pride In your flo weragaim to gro.. w fip}endid,specimens rater than a not - aktoecheotiori. X would rather ow ne fine Thurston begonia and hays so Perfee,t that it 'Maid :;compel ad - i a ion tlean grow a couple of dozen tegenies, itIi eenurionp?ace ,etcept the Variety. Lam/ I would rather grow one fern that would' fill a .window with its filmy fronds than a half dozen smaller ferns of different kinds. My friends would thrill with me over the one while they would give the collection but a pass- ing glance.—A. H. AFTER THE LAST BLOW-OUT, OLA INNER TUBES HAVE MANY USE'": An old inner tube has many uses in the household after it has seen its last days on the automobile. If rub- ber bands of various widths are cut from it, they will find many uses around the household. A paper- wrapped package is quickly fastened with one or two of them. The parcel - as garters to hold bands in her bloom- ers. If whole sections are cut, fringed and laced together, they make handy bags. The large size can b; stretched down over the broom and saves much wear on the edges. Baby will have no end of fun rolling a ball through a piece of inner tube a foot long. A VERY PLEASING BATH ROBE STYLE. Testis Na, o t--osm. FROM THE DESERT TOT IElltL Great Engineering In many parts ,of the world there is a bi:Karlin engineering, particularly in the :construction of great dame. .One is being "erected on the Nile, which will be the largest in the world when completed—Iarger even than the fa- mous Assuan Dani in "Egypt ---others are being constructed in India, while another tivenderful piece of engineering will be the mighty works in course of erection on • the Colorado River, the object of -Which is to harness that mighty forgo. - There arealready', on the Nile, num- ()rots laetink monuments to the skill and enterprise of British engineers, but this latest undertaking easily eclipses all previous works. The dam whiell is being erected on the Blue Nile,was commenced some years ago; but the work was condemned, The Soudan Government then invited tend- ers, and a British firm, Messrs. S. Pear - son and Company, were awarded' the contract, the sum 'involved being four million pounds, The dam is being con- structed for irrigationpurposes, and if the oompany's engineers fail to have water upon the land by July, 1925, they will have to pay a penalty of $500,000. Cutting Up a Country. Twenty thousand men are being em- ployed in the construction of this, the Makwar Dam, but they can work re- gularly :for onlyeight months in the year, the Nile being in flood: during the other four months. Work during summer ;Is also difficult owing to the extreme heat. The top of the dam will act as' a bridge' for the Soudan Railway. The dam itself will be two miles long and will creat a lake fifty miles long and two miles wide. From this lake will run a canal seventy miles long, from which, in turn, there will be 10;000 Feats to, Help Trade: miles of Smaller waterways, all of which will:combine to distribute water and render fertile a vast tract of coun- try. At the present time ;there is a small army of. British workpeople--mechan ics and so on—in the Soudan cutting up the desert to make it blossom. And .even after tho:nvork.is completed Sri - Lain will continue to benefit, for it is. ' estimated that 300,000 litres of `tire' ' desert -w111, as, a result of the -work, 'be bearing s wonderful crop of cotton, inuoh; of which .will; it is hoped, find its way to the'mills Of"Lancashire. I 'Even more costly.will .be the lrriga- tion project which has_been begun; in :India,soy British ttg n ral b riti h e i ee s. This is the construction of • ^a'dam ,on the ten ' million pounds. : There will be sixty-six sluice gates, 850 utiles of main' canals, and 1,200 miles of erten- .er distrbutaries. Th am across the Colorado The d o C talo River will be twice the height of St. Paul's Cathedral,. and will entail the •expendi- ture of nearly fifty-five miilMn dollare. The River That Brings Ruin. - If the Colorado is not tamed there is to hope of saving' from inundation the prosperous : Imperial Valley with its 100,00.0 settlers and yearly trope representing a value of $10o,00o,o00. The river flows at the phenomenal speed of thirty ,miles an hour, as fast as many trains! In 190(1 it overflowed its banks, cut a deep channel thirty- five miles long through the desert, and formed 'what is known as the Salton Sea, a huge. lake 50,000 acres in. area. Early in June, 1922, it wiped out al- most half the Palo Verde Valley, hope- lessly submerging two towns, ruining thousands of dollars worth of standing crops and rendering thousands, of peo- ple homeless. - unless baked, cannot be prepared in a short time, Rice can be cooked in twenty min- utes and used at any time thereafter for several days. The following recipe for Mexican baked rice makes a very substantial "one -dish dinner which is suitable for busy days.. Cook one and one-quarter oupfixls of rice in boiling salted water for thirty minutes. Add one and one-half cup- fuls :tomato juice, ona large: green pep - Der cut up fine, one-half cupful chopped pimento and a dash of pepper. Mix. together thoroughly and pour into a well -buttered enameled ware baking dish, the porcelain -like surface of which will not affect or be affected by the acid in the tomatoes. On top place the tomato pulp, left . after straining. the juice. Bake thirty min- utes in a hot oven. Serve while hot. O 4959. Striped flannel, corduroy and eiderdown are good materials for a garment like this. It could also be Made of quilted silk or satin, or of blanket cloth. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small, 34-86; Medium, 88-40; Large, 42-44; Extra Large, 48-48 inches bust meas. ure. A Medium size requires 4% yards of 86 -inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 20c in silver, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Send 15c in silver for our up-to- date Fall end Winter 1924-1925 Book of Fashions. TO A BABY. Little rosy babykin with little rosy hands Petal -like — yet nietal-like with strength of iron bands! Holding me and folding me in love's ecstatic mesh Love's ethereal spirit has been al- chemized to flesh! Dimpled little baby with a smile like honey -dew; What -has any human done to earn such wage as you? Search my life of sin and strife how- ever much I may, Nothing half deserving you is 'found along the way. Still we hold. each other with: a glad - nese all Complete Gladnees that is heavenly and wonder- fully sweet: 1 can only thank my stars for such .a lovely fate Goehl This makes a dozen lines; the editor told me eight! Strickland Gillilan, BAKED RICE --MEXICAN STYLE: Bealdee being easily prepared, rice dishes aro especially 'nourishing and & fetid eubatitute for potatoes which, • What One Remembers. She (under the spell of nature)— "Sad and sweet November! Makes one remember—" He (rather more practical)—"That next month's December—and bank ac- counts scounts vanish. with the old' year." For sore Feet—Minard's Liniment .ove Gives Ilse THE STORY 'OF' `A BLOOD FEUD' BY ANNIE S. SWAN. "Love gives itself: and isnot bought. -Longfellow. CHAPTER IV. (Cont'd.) "No! and by heaven you, don't leave The Little People. The Lord of the Little People;. Gentle and very wise Walking His. woods' In 'the:twilight, Harks to' His children's trice,, , Ares His. tender mouth le wry with.:: psi¢, ,And terrible twat -It's eyea. The snare that has'tbrottled the rabbit: Jerks to his dying .strain; Trapped by his rushathatohed'dwelling, The muskrat whirfipers his pain; fingers to`'get 'too closely about tie And here the bird with .the shot -smash - Once or:twice,, rendered uneasy by IIldden three. clays has lain. me like thatl . Do you think that I, 'Peteriu� m , Garvock, am ong to ade chance scraps of conversation which , a,laughmy-stock of inahe place by a she had overheard, Judy had asked a The Lord of the- Little People creature like you!': That you and few questions, and ,even, on one oc- _ Wistfully goes Iris way, , Stair,.between(.you will make me such casion, ventured on„a mild protest, 'seeking in vain His ,children;, a fool I MIL yea, yea haven t-recle_but her father'had''reassured her. Few and.; afraid' are they y + men than Of the m'ightY beast who has ravished oned with Peter Garvock. I can crush There are few shrewder him, as one ci:ushes a fly on the pane.( Your cousin Peter, my dear, and }n I the world s its f I have d I o what co le a o ve him fest in the tells; an P W people s y f {Lim, few will crush him' Ile will never have'ntore generous. We shall be perfectly With his hunger to slay, slay, slay. you, safe with him, and it is far better to go to a relative for an obligement Lonely the fields at twilight;, than to an outsider.” I ,Empty the darkling wood. But, that was just ,the'point.where- There, in the woodehuck's,•burrow,,'n: either bread or salt to offer ` for he is incapable of earning an honest penny.;His onlyrasset,is his handsome face, and we shall reel—we shall see" —and 'h' 'there' was actuatty foam on Judy was by no means satisfied, ( Dead Iles an orphaned brood. on his lips -"we shall see, how much it She liked Peter. She even found 'cer- a And feathers and outs of blood Garrotte,k d beyond telling, need or belittled but h g shaking o lira t ri akmg with nervousness that was q growing p op star, ,.will do for him!" tarn qualities in him others had dre Here, where the bobwhites cowered,.r sickened eon a ing, � ; u she uneasy) • y 'because fI partly fear tinned and fled. interest in Stair, She wondered what The Lord of the Little People, mad: blind passion of a.man baulked had not It was. her first encounter with the Alan thought of it, but as et the Who may divine what stirs .openlytr -as Heseeks 'in the twilight tleales t desire.. She had looked Irnere were it0 misglvin'gs in. Peter 'as she }mag!hed, into the depth's ofGarvock's heart that Sunday after the innermost, hell; . yet, .,behind her noon as he strode savagely and swift - natural shrinking, a 'vast pity) lay, ly to the Dalblair Inn for his horse:. :Never had Peter Gaiwoek, in his kind -1 Nay, in; his heart there was a deep d The songs of His worshippers, -e And hears S but whimpers and squeale of pain From creatures in plumes and furs? est, most'Servile mood, pleading' for an savage satisfaction that he had her forbearance, if not for her loved it in his power to repay Alan Rankine The partridge rots in the woodland; appealed' as he had done now, in the in like_eoin for his treachery. The. The wild duck drowns in the sea; throes of his jealous rage. appeal Carlotta had made,, thevivid Beasts on the wide -flung trap lines She wept as she aped across the and arresting statement abaft the Perish in agony. field paths, choosing them blindly yet swift birth of love between her and That the monkey -thing with the urea - without mistake, so as to escape the Stair, had`had no effect on him, save, sel's Inst scrutiny of the Sunday strollers. They rhaps to dee en his wrath. He was - o dismay ca a e o del xovan it r under - ,were tears f y and of shame for ' capala f b 1' g o of May wallow in 'mastery, herself, that she had awakened suer 'standing'a thing so subtle. Hard facts, passion in a marl's soul. Never un- were all that Peter Garvock could deal The Lord of the Little Peoltle, aware of her :power—for what attrac- with, and he would force his enemies tive woman is?—she had altogether to contemplation of them, too; failed to gauge its depths. She had At the Dalblair inn. they wondered would be quenched. And none or knew his horse so soon. Since he had begun , awakened fixes which; perhaps, never to see the laird of The Lees return f A Poem You Ought to Know. i In a Drear-NIghted December: The following lyric is by John Keats, and the concluding lines, are among the most poignant in our literature.:— In a drear.nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches neer remember Their green felicity; The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them; Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime, Ina drear-nighted December,.. Too happy, happy brook, Thy'bubbliugs ne'er remember Apollo's, summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time. Ali! would 'twere so with many: A gentle girl and boy! But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy? To know the change and feel it, When there is none to heal it, Nor numbed sense to steal it, Was never said In rhyme. Power of the Will. "'T1s in ourselves we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; eo that if we will plant nettlee or sow lettuoe, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, -either to have it sterile with idleness or man - tired with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.—Shakespeare's "Othello" to what heights these flames might to spend his Sundays at the Clock Who can his thoughts surmise? Cattle and small, gray monkeys Heard His first baby cries. He knows, He knows when a sparrow falls rise! I House, seven and eight limas' stabling And terrible are His eyes. Her being quailed at the thought of had been required, and it was always —F. Ven do Water. danger to Stair. dark before he rode away. — ._.-- Peter'Garvoclt in such a moo was I Seeing thunder on his brow, the capable of murder a d ' ostler somethin • of ai philosopher de Birds in Winter. p and the thought, , g P P > It is hard for people to realize that vhe paused, stumbling with mortal ear, g birds have difficulty in. finding food P g path; Garvock rode straight home grand during the winter mouths when the and, hesitating, looked back, half-Jingthere about half -past four, and stools heavy, It is said ilia many minded to return and plead with him. entered ilio house as his mother's tea - But her pride.forbade her. They were:tray was being, carried upstairs to that he had her lover so much in his tided that there had doubtless, been a power sickened h 't' r t 1 f 'Rivers' tiff men, and must fight it out on the men's 'the small drawing -room where they battle -ground.: She dared not inter- I sat when alone. yarns. No woman co"n4!"d. I The man started at sight of his Left to himself, Peter Garvock pee- master, and hesitated. ed the narrow clearing in the Cess -I "Will you take tea, air?" neck woods, the prey of the darkest No, and say nothing to your mis- passion which can ravage a man's tress. I am going out again, and may soul. All the inborn and hidden jeal-IbeP late." Sunda ousy of his cousin Stair rushed upp y was not yet new kindled, permeating his whole over: being, poisoning the very air he He; ('eft the .house by the french breathed. He of the music -room, which had As cousins, at school and college, I been a laf. addition to The Lees. they had been pitted against one an -:Peter's molter was very musical, and, other; aitd -()very time Stair had car -;never having been strong, had spent tied off the palm with that Dasa and much of her time cultivating her gift. surety which' follows those beloved of The husband who had adored her and perished in the 'late heavy -storm of last year. A bird table or tree is us- ually well patronized, and should be: maintained whenever possible. They never forget the people who lead them and their cheerful chatter !n the midst of snow and ice is one of the most optimistic things In the world: Birds are. badly, needed, and there ;la much to be gained by 'encouraging them, either in summer or winter, but the winter -feeding !S needed most. To awake In the morning and Iliad your breakfast, also your'luncheen and din- ner -covered • by, a blanket of snow, ie a discouraging prospect, No wonder the gods, whom Nature has endowed who had loved to study her slightest they are so overjoyed when they find with her most winsome gifts. !whim, had built this noble annexe, and a table set for them somewhere. A Peter the tortoise, slow, ponderous,( fitted it up most sumptuously, though good idea is, an upright post with • unlovely to look at, blunt of speech of late it had been ,little used; Lucy, flat Platform on top of It. ;.This should and sour of heart, had had to toil and the only daughter of The Lees, not be kept clear of snow, and crumbs and moil, while Stair, with a smile and a. having inherited her mother's musical table scraps of all sorts placed on it glance of his merry laughing eyes; gifts, '" It -should be Wei enough to prevent swept easily to the goal. A wide' sweep of exquisitely -kept Data from leaping upon it; they cannot The only gate closed 'to Stair had turf, bounded by a fine stone balus- been the power to make or accumulate trade, copied from Stair, made theclimbover the edge, and the birds are money. And money is power! Money' back of The Lees even more imposing safe at their meals. Is power! than the front. Beyond the balustrade There are many oold and hungry lit - Peter Garvock, rolled these words, the hill rose steeply, its: sparse ^flL yle things in winter, and when we feed like a sweet morsel, under his tongue, trees making covert for gains b as he at last turned away, the door for The Lees and Stair. Higher up of his Paradise closed, to face a fu- it was quite bare, except for the ture in which Carlotta had no place. heather clumps which grew among the Alan Rankine should be made to feel that power. It would be used to the boulders. On the other side of the hill, on and care for them we are simply; exe- cuting the will and expressing the love of the 'Power that supplies all good. Moreover, it is not ail pure generosity. A bird table near a window le a real " uttermost to grind him down, to ran_which Stair stood, and which faced the source of amusement and enjoyment, der his union with Carlotta or with sea, the slope was entirely covered There Is a story told of a woman who 1 any woman. impossible. His Uncle with heather and lay beautifully to had a long tedious illness.. Active, i Claud, even against his -better judg the sun, making a very fine back - round for thrt t 1 h f usually, in mind and body, she became .' anent, .had. allowed Peter Garvock s g em o -e s a e y ome o almost maddened by the leaetlon and FA'M'OUS U.S. BASLL EBAMEN HUNT IN CANADA . " Star 'players from Yankee baseball.teant join_, captain of Chicago White Sox in hunting trip to .New Brunswick woods. P To -left--Edelle-Collins, Fred Hoffman, Bob Shawkey, Joe: Bush. Right—Bob Sh'awkeywith ,one of his trophies. Be-. low.—Edd(eColllns prepares a steak. s captain of the Chicago White Sox, with Bob Shawkey, Dred Hoffman and JO Buell, leading right Eddie, Collins, P hand Pltchere.ofthe Yankees' and Dr. Watford, .of P hiladelpilia, have just r_e 111.11 l to civilisation after a;:success- fat sojourn in the Tobigue game idistrict of 'New Brunswick, about which they are most e,nth esiastia. Charlie Cremin, the noted guide of the Tobighe, had them In tow, Charlie met the rest or the party at ?taster Rock, the jumping off place on the Canadian Pacific Railway. eoe Bueh-landed first blood, killing,a moose with a fiftyinch spread of, antlers. Shawkey, killed one later with a spread. of fifty-three inches, immediately following up by killing a buck with antlers carrying twenty-three points, while. Dr, Walford and Feed Iieffivan were killing a moose and'a deer each. An Albino fell to Joe Bush on the last day. the Rankmes. 1t was natural That the cousins, all imprisonment. One, day she watched friendly in their childhood, should two. birds scrapping in the snow over a have made a short-cut between the two crust, with such' an air of enjoyment that her brother next day, built a plat- form outside.her-window and scatter- ed cattered setae toed on it. From that on she watched the table In the wildferness ' each .day, and extracted' the greatest amusement from the featherd diners. "They are almost human;" she an- nounced one day after a meal, "Their table mannere vary so, Some behave so nicely, evidently well -brought up, and others act like street gamins. But they are darlings. I love -them all," houses. A small wicket gate, .cummng- ly fashioned, opened out of the thick shrubbery at the far end of the ter- race, and it was but a :step through the fir belt to the sheep track and the march dyke which separated the two properties. To this path Peter. Garvock turned then in the gnaw of that beautiful Sunday afternoon, het the.peace, and beauty of. it laid no, Healing balm or hush on his spirit. The sea had never looked more lovely, with the hills of Arran just visible through the tender The feeling of newness of life was everywhere; the cry of the lambs which dotted the hillsides, and the song of the'laverocks m. the lift filled the air with that "wonderful, vivid sense of -life andhope inseparable. from the spring. Peter Garvock had .other things to think of than the beauty of a spring afternoon in one of .the most beauti- ful spots in the world. After he had passed through the gate in the march dyke and "actually stood upon the lands of Stair he stood still, and, knit- ting his brows, seemed to take stock with frowning eyes of the boundaries. IIe was measuring something—, meditating, perhaps, on some fresh division which_, would equalize his. rights. - 1 can crush him!" he said between his teeth. "If I choose I can hound him out of Stair without :a penny to his name. What can hungry acres do for a man? Why, nothing! He shall pay, pay, pay to the uttermost far- thing.!'. : Suddenly, round the spur of the hill where ;the flag still flew half-mast high from the tower of Stair, he be. held a tall figure striding towards him -the man, with whom his blaek thoughts were busy, the men who had wronged him, whorled stolen his'wife from him before he'had called her by that sweet name! -(To be continued.) Minard'e Liniment Neptil Outs, Pasteur Director Gave Back - Prize Money.: " There 10 a atory that Dr.. Row; director of the Pasteur Institute. in Paris, when lie was awarded the Osiris Prize of $20,000 for the disoovery, of the antidiphther!a serum, gave back the entire. amount to the institute, a1• though he is relatively a, poor man. The founder of the prize, M, Osiris; asked Dr.`Roux why he had given'the Money to the instttnite.' Dr: Rome;re-- pllee that all he is he owes to the Pas teur Institute, far all his eXperiments and discoveries have been made there, And bealdes, the institute- was very pool•, he said, and IM feared that in the case of some new and notable'remedy being discovered, 'it Would 'have to, -.close its doors. for want. offunda, lL' Osiris said nothing, tint at his death he left the' bulk' of his wealth; amounting to nearby $7;250,000; t0 the Pasteur Institute as a token of, ad nitration for. the scientifie attainmen'te and: self.abnegation of its, dlreoEoi•, ` A real man said reaently that, he waS going rabbit hnnting;witl't his boy and they weregoing to; talk over a lot of things about treeB';ond birds and wird things.oi the country. Thai, is the kind of father that ovary boy should have.