The Seaforth News, 1942-01-01, Page 7HELP FOR'RUSS1A
Valentine tanks built at the Catiadian Pacific Angus Shops en
route to the Russian battlefield.
HOW CAN 1?
BY ANNE ASHLEY
What fa a good fertilizer for a
stern?
A. Try using a solution of eight
Deets of eodium chloride, four
parts potassium nitrate, and two
paean magnesium, Mix thoroughly
and put into bottle. Dissolve one
teaspoonful of this solution in a
quart od water and water the fern
about once a week.
Q. Haw can I prevent squeaking
miters in my furniture?
A. Before inserting tate. casters,
dip the shanks into vaseline and
than slip them into place, This
Ilett only prevents squeaks, but also
greatly facilitates the rolling of
the furniture.
Q. How can I prevent syrup from
turning back into sugar?
A. The turning back to sugar can
be avoided when making syrup, if,
when it ie coming to a boil, one-
third teaspoon cream of tartar is
added to every two cups of sugar.
used,
Q. How can I clean corduroy?
A. glee pure white soap and
warm soapy water when washing
corduroy. Plunge the goods up and
down; rinse eeverai times in clear
water. Do not wring; hang up
inside out, dripping wet, to dry.
Do not iron, but use a brush when
dry (only one way oe the cloth)
to smooth tate nap:
Q. What is a good home remedy
for relieving a cough?
A. A mixture of honey and lemon
juice will often pr9Ve effectire.
Butter in hot milk, taken before re.
tiring, will eaae the throat and in-
duce a pleasantly drowsy feeling.
MODERN
ETIQUET TE
BY ROBERTA LEE
1. What is theproper way to
speak into a telephone?
E. Should salads always be cut
and eaten with the fork?
1. What kind of place -cards
obonld be used at the bridal table
to indicate where the guests are
to sit? -
4. What are. Immo of the expres'
clone salespeople in etorea shoaid
avoid using?
5. Is it ever permissible for the
hostess to sit at the side of the
dinner table?
6. What le the correct pronun-
ciation of "decollete" and what
does it mean?
ANSWERS
3. Talkdirectly into the mouth-
piece with your lips not more than
hall: an inch away. Each inch that
you add between your lips and
the mouthpiece is equal to adding
720 wire miles to the distance your
voice must travel. Use a full,
natural tone, and take care to
pronounce each word clearly and
distinctly. Don't talk too Loudly,
ee this may cause the words to
blur in transmission, 2.. .A.11 salads
are eaten with the fork, if hard
hearts of lettuce are served and
they cannot be managed with a
fork, it is permissible to cut them
with the knife. S. Pain white cards,
embossed with the bride's initials.
4. Such phrases as "Look hero,"
er "Say novel" :t0 attract one's at-
tention, And slang phrase's such as
"0. K., "Sure," and "All righty."
6. No; she ebould always sit at
the foot of the table. 6. Pronounce
dakol-ta, both a's as in day, o as
Ian of, accent last syllable. It le
se French word that means "leav-
ing the neck and shoulders uncov-
ared,"
Clean Sweep
Revenue was mounting nicely
Ott the benefit turkey shoot when
11 unifol'lhed ,malt strolled np ziti
wanted to know what went On.
Sponsors explained that three
Sorkeye and a goose were being
given away. All you had to do
spas hit the buds' heads bobbing
is a box PO yards away—at acne a shot.
The uniformed man said he
would try fifty cents Worth. He
tired four times, picked up three
turkeys and the goose and went
dome without esleing for his dime
change, The S;.e.,. t3 ;!Ileo went
beano.
Have You Heard ?
Having extended her visit long-
er than she meant to, the old ledy
was going home after dark—and
it was dark,
Presently in spite of all her care,
she bumped into a dimly -seen man
and they both crashed on the pave-
ment. At once the man was all
apologies,
"Bo sorry," he murmured, "Care-
less of me, Let rae help you up,
So sorry,"
"Never mind all that," returned
the old lady, curtly, "Vioill you
please tell me which way I was
facing before I was knocked
down."
Some gulls were following a
ferry boat.
An Irishman said. "Nice
flock of pigeons."
A tourist insisted: "Those
are gulls."
"Well," said the Irishman,
"gulls or boys, they're a fine
flock of pigeons."
y—.
A new system of memory train -
Ing was being taught in a village
school and the teacher weis be-
coming enthusiastic.
"For instance," he said, "sums -
Ing you want to remember the
none of a poet Bobby Burns, Fix
in your mind's eye a picture cf
a policeman in flames. See Bobby
Burns?"
"Yes, I' sees," said, a bright
pupil. But how is one to know
it does not represent Robert
Browing?"
An optimist and a pessimist
ware defined by a speaker et
e meeting In Falkirk the other
day as tallowy:
"An opiaeoet Is a man who
sees a light that isn't there,
and a pessimist le the fool who
tries to blow It out"
_v—
Hitler was interviewing his
troops and stopped to talk to one
private.
"How are things with y0u2" he
asked.
"Oh, I can't complain, dr," an-
swered the soldier.
"l'Il say you can't," agreed the
Fuelsrer.
—v—
Wife: "You kissed the maid,
you kissed the mald, you kiss-
• ed the maid."
Hubby: "You don't have to
repeat it so many times."
Wife: "Youdidn't have to
repeat it so many times eith-
er,"
—v—
The man, hearing of a position
open in another city, wired the
following message, direct and col-
lect:
"Am on way to accept the posi-
tion stop deduct cosi of this tele-
gram from my Drat week's' salary."
He got the job.
—y—
Teacher: "Name the five
sones." r
Pupil: "Temperate, intemp-
erate, war, postal and 0.."'
Submarine Officers
Under Great Strain
Submarine officer's often have
ridges across their finger nails,
each ridge being caused by a sep-
arate period of mental strain, ac-
cording to Charles Graves, in a
book entitled "Life. Line," just
published in London.
White hair and baldness are also
found among captains of subma-
rives. Baldness cannot be caused
by nervousness but white hair
can, he says. It is notunusual
feria submariner's ]fair to go from
jet black to gray in twelve
Months.
These and other strange /acts
in his account of the navy's de-
fense of Britain were obtained
h' special faccorded
tltrouJit sp 1 ilitie ae a
by the Admiralty,
kf entholatu■
irritation eootbei
need
,..relieves sniff-
ling end anaet-
big. Clears the
nbeo, Jari end
tubes,IR
30e. 'A
What Science Is
Doing
WHAT SCIENCE IS APING?
SNBEZE$
Professor hi, W. Jonnison,oi the
Massachusetts. Institute of `tech-
, oology has limn investigating the
"velocity 02 eneases," reports The
Halifax Herald: The professor' used
a camera in hie researcli work, and
his findings; just published, aro
worthy al note,
'In a,''good, full•hodied sneeze"
thousands .of particles, Ise assures
us, leave tile mouth in much the
came manner as pellets leave the
muzzle of a shotgun, with a vel-
ocity of .150 feet a second, The-
motature of them quickly evapor-
ates, and the germ•laden particles
are left wandering about in Ma
air looking for someliolly to infect,
SOYBEAN' HELMETS
The Soybean Products Labor-
atory of the Department of Agee -
culture and the cotton specialists
of the Southern Regional Re'search
Lalboratory have jointly developed
a plastic helmet out of heavy
cotton cloth and soybeans. Object:
To protect the heads ofminers
and workers ou construction jobs
from falling 'material, The new
helmets are lighter than the old
metal kind hitherto used, In fact,
they are strong enough to deflect
blows up to forty pounds, which
is about all that the human neck
can stand.
—V—
SELF.HEATING
Popular Science tells of cans
that heat themselves. The cans
are double, with a chemical be-
tween the walls that heats on con-
tact with air. Turn a can over,
punch four holes, and let stand
about fifteen minutes. The result
will be piping hot, ready -to -serve
spaghetti, beans, or coffee.
Nearly 2,000.000 tons of rice was
shipped from Burma in eigbt
menthe.
Speaks For British
Artillery shells enemy posi-
tions as British forces fight on
In new Libyan offensive.
Christmas Boxes
For War Prisoners
As early as August, 72,00.0
Christmas boxes began their trek
from the Red Cross packing cen-
tre in London to Britain's 70,000
men in the prison camps 'of Ger-
many, British Industries Bulletin
relates, The extra 2,000 parcels
are an insurance that everybody
gets one. The first lap was to.
Lisbon; the next to Marseilles;
then on to Geneva, and so to
Germany.
In each box was a Christmas
pudding, a double ration of choco-
late, chocolate biscuits, rye bis-
cuits, jam, margarine, roast' pont
and stuffing, a tin of steak and
tomato, condensed milk, four
ounces of sugar, two ounces of
tea and a Christmas cake. Also,
7,200,000 cigarets went off at the
same time in separate packages
of 100-a double ration for each
man. The value of this Christ-
mas gift is £80,000.
Nor has the Red Cross forgot-
ten the little band of eleven Brit-
ish children in German intern-
ment camps, Each of thein has
been sent a special'. parcel of bar-
ley sugar, boiled sweets and go
on. And to one hospital in ,Bel-
gium where there are soldiers who.
have been lying on their backs
since Dunkirk, has, gone a eon-
. sigmneitt of jig -sew p'!..:^r..
,Relieves =PAW 11gY.b
FEMALE.
Women who Suffer pain of irregular
periods with cranky nervousness—
due to monthly functional disturb-
enoes—should find Lydia EJ. Pink-.
hem's Vegetable Compound Tablete
(with added iron) eery e1Jeetioe to
relieve
eetd madb a peoi4fiti for 510750 held
build up resistance against, such
annoyying-ey1nptame. Polley/label.
direstione, Made tit Canada,
Dinna Ye Hear
The Highlanders?
Scettleh Battalions, Bagpipes
ascight All, Take Part In Libya
Fi
While regimental anonymity' le
still observed with regard,.to tate
Battle of Libya, it' is learned in-
directly that there are Highland.
ere in the: fray, Asa matter of fact
there have been Scottish battal.
tons in all the North Melee cans
pai'gne down as tar as Ethiopia. It
is en this great struggle in Libya,
however, that the presence of the
Scots. has become known through
iueidental reforeuce to the bag-
pipes,.
A. despatch Ions Cairo in the mid.
die of last weep stated that be-
tween lulls in the gunfire, the
sound of the bagpipes could be
heard patting fresh heart into their
comrades. A later despatch told of
the joy with which a Highland
reghnent heard the skirl of the
pipes coming front up in front.
That was a pre -arranged signal
that a certain point had been cap-
tured.
Colors In Action
In olden days bands used to play
the regiments into action. The
colors oe the regiment were carried
into the fight too, and the music
and the color's were great sources
of inspiration.'SNten these customs
were abolished, the bandsmen eith.
er went into action, too, or acted
as stretches' -bearers.
It seems, however, that the
Scots' pipers go into action still, to
inspire and encourage their cos.
rules, Scots are stirred by the
story of the capture of the heights
of Dam'gai during the Chitra cam-
paign in northwest India in 1897,
the hero of which. Piper James
Findlater of the Gordon Highland-
ers, is still living, and Visited rela-
tives in Canada a few years 'ago.
Twice, Iinglish regiments had at-
tempted to storm the heights, but
were driven back by a withering
IIre. Then Colonel Mathias rode
up to his men and said: "The gen-
eral says that hili must be taken,
The Gordons will take it" Twice
Piper Findlater was 'shot going up
the hill, but propping himself
against a boulder he played "The
Cock o' the North," and thus inspir-
ed, the Gordons took the hill. Find -
later was awarded the Victoria
Croke
Pipes Give' Warning
Probably Scottish men and wo-
men have a sharp ear for the
sound of the pipes. When the Brit
ish garrison of 30, together with
a few civilians, were besieged in
Luck -now for four months, they had
almost given up hope and were re-
signed to massacre when the wife
a one o1 the Scottish soldiers
suddenly leaped to her feet and
cried: "Diana ye hear them, trine,
ye hear them? The Highlands are
corrin'."
Nobody else did but in a few
minutes the pipes were plainly
heard and a column of Highland -
ors soon arrived causing the Sepoys
to flee.
Perhaps there is no sound the
Italians and Germans more dread
to hear on the field than the bag-
pipes. It warns them that not
only the Campbells are cerin' but
all the rest of the Scotties.
One -wheelers
The C. 0. of a regiment in the
Middle East was puzzled when he
received notification to make ar-
rangements for the arrival of:
"Carriers, general utility, one -
wheeled, sixty."
He thought it must be a new
type of amall whippet tank and
made the neeessary parking ar-
rangements.
Eventually he received sixty
wheelbarrows.
GERM HOWf'i7ERS fN
USSi,4 IANDS
Soviet artillerymen examining German Howitzers captured in
recent fighting. Except for missing parts of the breech block, the
nearer gun appears to be in good condition.
Hitler Treats Friend
And Enemy Alike.
It ie not only in the invaded
and occupied countries that the
Nazis are hated. For some time
now the Italiana have been be-
coming increasingly restive since
they are finding by bitter experi-
ence that as Hitler's jackal they
get remarkably few tit -bite. A
most interesting article recently
appeared in an English newspaper
by an Englishman who has lived
in Italy for many years and who
was very recently a prisoner in
Tuscany. The writer says that
Italy is subjected by the Nazis
to almost as much indignity as a
conquered country. There is Ger-
man control on all railway sta-
tions, German supervision in sev-
eral centres, and the Italian sec-
ret police takes second place to
the Gestapo. Food is exceedingly
scarce; the Italians have had no
butter since they entered the war,
and they have meat only once a
week. The main reason for this is
that the Germans have annexed
most of their products such as
oil, fat, oranges and lemons. Hit-
ler adopts his "bleeding white"
policy towards his friends as well
as towards his enemies,
1941 Farm Income
Higher Than 1940
increase of 461,/, Million and
Trend Is Greater tc Mixed
Production
The prairie trend to mixed farm-
ing was exemplified in figures of
the Dominion Bureau of Statistics
alaearing 101 Seem income for the
first nine months of 1941 was sub-
stantially higher than for the same
period in 1940. '
Live Stock increases
The increase In value of live-
stock and livestock products sur-
passed that of field crops, al-
though increased returns from
both categories were reported.
Cash income from prairie farm
products sales was placed at $255,-
359,000 for the nine mouths this
year compared with $208,538,000
in the same period in 1940
The value of field crops advanc-
ed to $141,056,000 from $122,942,-
000 in 1940, while tate value in
livestock and livestock products
rose to $114,303,00, from $85,646,-
000.
Wheat production in 1941 was
reduced sharply compared with
1940, but during the present year
large quantities of the 1940 crop
were marketed.
The bureau said that higher re-
ceipts in 1941 were recorded for all
individual items contributing to
the total of farm income.
Saga of the Sea
The perils of the sea are not
reserved to the menaces of tore
pedoes and mines says the Kitch-
ener Record, The old sea with
its hurricanes, its pounding waves.
and its typhoons is still the same
elemental terror that ehallenged
mariners since Viking clays,
Ofrecentdate is the story of
s: Canadian three -master schooner
from Lunenberg caught ' in two
hurricanes and breached. Iler men
were reduced to starvation when
a small freighter hove in sight
and took on the despairing crew.
Salt water permeated the ves-
sel and spoiled the food. The men:
caught water in reservoirs de-
signed to hold the rain. This was
all they had to drink. The skip.,
per had a naw dress shirt and he
converted the pins in it to fish
hooks and the hien caught small
fish over the rail of the stagger-
ing ship.
This is just another saga of
the sea that has no U-boat or
lurking mine in the background.
It is the peril mariners have brav-
ed through the ages, and it is the
sort of thing that has made men
of mariners who now keep open;
the life lanes of the Empire, op -
crating the merchant marine in
spite of the hazard of storm or
war.
British Ships Carry
New S.O.S. Signals
A column of reddish -orange
smoke rose over the ocean, nearly
80 miles away. A British pilot
on patrol over the Atlantic spot-
ted it, and realized immediately
what it was— an S 0 S.
The smoke came from a box
about two feet square—and every
new ocean-going British ship will
carry several of them.
This is the life-saving apparatub
secretly tested by the Ministry of
Shipping, and when that British
pilot sighted the column of smoke
from the air the. experiments were
ended.
Shipwrecked men carrying one
of these boxes need only to pull
a trigger to release a cloud of
smoke which will rise for an hour,
becoming thicker every minute.
The box floats, and If water gets
into the chemical inside the smoke
becomes still thicker.
Raw fur production :n Canada
in the twelve months 'ended June
30, 1940, amounted to $16,068,348,
an increase of 177 per cent over
the preceding season.
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