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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-01-08, Page 6YEAR-ROUND RESORT HOTEL STE. ADELE E RAU'' P,Q, CANADA WINTER HOLIDAY Located hyla la the.. Laurentians, this Omer. Ions hotel With ram ad- ditions offers you the ilaaximear iu hultdfV alcesures. Ski school ski -tows . . . flood-Ut hills . $Peeiens nun+ decks and denying in the 'rerrtee Rouen. Re, striated. Write for hkito. rates and reservations. Lessons In Love by ,TERRY BRONDFIELD CHAPTER ONE :4ace was one, of utmost dis- The look on Barbara phase's pleasure as she curled up on the (sofa and lifted the telephone to her ear. "It's that anaemic Lester Bur- ton again," she hissed to her' ;Uncle Hank as she prepared to speak. Hank Chase shook his head. Poor Lester. Poor fish. "No, Lester ..." Barbara was saying wearily. "No, I'm busy. Nope, busy Friday, too. No-o-oo. No, Lester, maybe next week. Yes, that's a good boy. Don't fret, now. 'Bye." Barbara put down the 'phone, She rested an elbow on a knee and cupped her chin in her hand. "Uncle Hank," she intoned, "if 1 were to use this house as a focal point and then draw a circle with a 100 -mile radius, do you think there might be a man some- where in that circle who had a spark of interest?" His answer was nothing more than a snort. Barbara shook her head, and the long blond curls swished about her shoulders. "When," she mocked, "tell me WHEN are men going to quit talk= ing about the stock market, the tax rate, and the wonderful bin - goes they go on? When is this present cropof so-called eligibles going to crawl from ander their night club pallors and reveal a red corpuscle or two?" She plopped down beside Uncle Hank and poked hint in the ribs. "This country's going to pot, Why doesn't somebody do some- thing about tbe improvement of the breed? I meati men, not hors- es. Why, I can't even get some decent golf competition these days," She folded her arms sullenly. "Superiority ... bah i" '"Bah' isn't ladylike," Uncle Hank admonished. "But then, neither is your golf game," he admitted. "And why .. WHY don't they quit showering me with flowers and silly little trinkets and sell ane something in the way of old - :fashioned masculinity? Lester Burton—bah!" a r- 5 Hank Chase tapped his pipe softly. "Gal, you were born 30,- 000 years too late. You belong back in one of those mezozoic ages, or whatever they were." "No, I don't. I merely maintain that the man I marry must be able to balance a tea cup with his Ieft hand and drop a 40 -foot putt with his right at the same time." "Must be lots of them like that in New York." "If there are," she growled, "someone's keeping thein in chains in a fourth floor attic. Nope, Uncle Hank, I don't know of any in that 100 -mile radius I mention- ed. Lair Grover, maybe, but he's more interested in horses than women. I bet I could do better if I went down to your Oklahoma oil fields and dated a couple of drillers." Hank Chase'a head jerked up with interest, "Now, maybe that won't be necessary. Fact of the matter is we're going to have a visitor from down Oklahoma way Every sailor. soldier and airman nestle Mentholatum for dozens of minor ail- . mete. Smnil in coat but t.; very valuable in use. QUICK RELIEF FOR HEAD COLDS CHA?PING. TIRED AND ACHING PEET SUNBURN' INSECT BITES OUTS AND BRUISES and olhat -von dillone..- tomorrow. Forgot to mention it to you, Very forgetful of me. 1 might add, however, that he pos oibly is .what you're looking for in the way of -well, did you say . masculinity?" d N 4 "Who?" she asked,quickl3', sus- piciously. Uncle Hank puffed on his pipe. "Chief Leaping Water." "Chief Leaping --an INDIAN?" "Well, kinda." Fie grinned. "However, I don't think he'll get off the train wearing war paint, and he probably has as many of the so-called social graces as most of the young 'men you know, but—" And then for a long minute Uncle Hank stopped. There was a sudden thought that struck him, and he liked the way it kept bouncing back. "His real name," he continued, "is Dugan Blake. Rather Irish - sounding, but he's mostly Ameri- can, you know. Dugan has been field superintendent with us for three years now. Coming up to New York for a conference for the first time." "You mean this is his first trip to New York?" "Right. And, Barbara" Uncle Hank stroked his chin reflective- ly—"I think it would be a pretty good idea if you helped entertain him while he's here. Just a couple of weeks." "EnterTAIN him," she echoed. "Entertain an Indian? Why the only party he'll be interested in is a scalping party, and he prob- ably couldn't get any closer to the conga than a wee dance." Hank grinned. "What's the dif- ference?" he inquired mildly. "But seriously, Barbs, I'm going to count on you. Okay?" • "In a minor sort of way," she promised darkly. "But very n1i- nor." r 5 5 Uncle Hank went to Grand Central alone the next day. He figured a little talk with Dugan Blake might be in. order before- hand. He looked at his watch. Two more minutes. And then there he was, striding up the ramp. Barbara was coming out of the garden, her arms full of peonies, when Uncle Hank's car swung up the clrie and stopped in front of the house. "Barbs," said Uncle Hank,' get- ting out of the car, "this is Chief Leaping Water, but I guess he'd want you td call him Dugan Blake. Dugan, my one and only Bar- bara:" Barbara Chase didn't quite re- alize it, but she held her breath as Dugan Blake uncoiled himself from the back seat of the con- vertible and stepped out lightly. She found herself offering her handl in greeting, but as yet she hadn't said anything. The man smiling faintly before her was tall and dark, vett' dark. The pressure of his handclasp was Firm, almost powerful: "So this is 'the fanged Miss Bar- bara," she heard him murmur, just as it occurred to her that never in all her twenty-three years had she ever met anyone as handsome as Chief Leaping Water. He held her hand for a long minute, but she made no effort to draw away. Anyway, she had an idea be wouldn't have allowed it even if she had tried. (To be continued; Well Built Plants Deep In Interior William S. Knudsen said that the production goal for giant four -motored bombers has been increased from 500 a month to 1,000 an announcement that une derscored tbe opinion of defence. officials that the Pacific war must be won by bombing Japan. The director of the office of production management said new hombet production facilities would have to be built and that every plane factory would have to adopt the 108 -hoar work week. In a war which apparently is to become increasingly a battle of bombers, Knudsen said the new aircraft facilities would be placed. "inside the mountains" --deep in the interior beyond the destruc- tive range of Axis planes. Further, preparations will be made so that machinery from all% craft plants now concentrated lei danger, areas of the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards can be moved 1 necessary, This recalls Russia's ISSUE 1—'42 "knock down" factories, whin% have bee carried backward ba- fs yond' reach of Nazi bombers, y Caiuouflag.. Tltc latest Nazi camaufiade trick reParted lay Bussien military, des. patches: Gerona fuel trunks supply- ing panzer columns are being moved up to the trout covered with hey and straw,arranged to Sino late the appearauee of a •liusslan' peasant' cottage., Twelve million 'meets a day are serred outside the hems in Britain, Stoppling the float ler fire sec- OIn1S may CaUae unConS0ioUcne9S,' but it 10 possible to restore 81fe' after thIO heart has stopped beat Ing far 15 minutes ander some eir- cumstanees. Twenty -eleven beavers were ship- ped recently . from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the • IJnited aStates for breading purposes and to meet the increasing demands 'fee "nut- ria" fur for women's •coats. Seventy miles of road in Britain will have plastic white lines to aid drivers during blackouts. To save refrigerator mega space in shipments to ` Great Britain, the Australian Goveaniu sit proposes to process the entire egg export surplus as egg powder. Ten egg- drying plants will be operating'lie- Pore the end of the year, 1941. Five tons of nails per day are used by a Canadian plant in crat- ing military vehicles for shiptneut to the British armies, The Hong Kong police" furnish anttpiraoy guards for British ves- sels on the•Ohina coast. Animated cartoons are being pre- pared to teach the men of the armed forces strategy, gunnery and other training subjects. Canada is one of the leading manufacturers of rubber geode producing rubber commodities val- ued at more than 83 million dollars at factory prices in 1940. The first- estimate of the late field crops of Canada in 1941 places potato production at 39,- 290,000 ewt. Palestine has decreed that any article which can be produced lu that couutry cannot be shipped in for sale Prom other countries. The Shark Yields Valuable Vitamins Has Now Become Source of Revenue, Says the St. Thom- as Times -Journal Until quite recently sharks have been regarded as the most useless of denizens of the sea. They are anathema to fishermen because their presence scares fish away from the fishing grounds, and when the larger species get 'caught in a net they thresh about so much that they seriously damage tiro gear, Usually they have been sold for fertilizers. Thanks to ohemfcal research,; however, . the shark has now be- come a valuable fish. There are, many species of the sharp fam- ily but the,weicome types are the clog -shark, the soupfin, the blue, thrasher and mud shark. Their liv- er is discovered td be richer in vitahiu al than any other sub- stance. From the Canadian west coast clown to San Francisco, fish- ermen are 'now going out for sharks only, and the aggregate value of catches is something like $75,000,000 a year; money which was formerly discarded. Recently, a four -man boat out of San Fran- cisco ,brought in a 31,000 catch in five days, malting over $1,100 for each 1nan. The average is 3700 to 31,300 a Week ton' three men, 011 for Planes The boom is clue to a San Fran- cisco druggist who begun using shark's liver to fortify feed for poultry. He found that the liver of the soupfin shark contained 110 times as much vitamin A as the liver of halibut. and other fish. It yielded 100,000 units per grain compared with 5,000 in the others. During this current year the Uni- ted States Clovernnleut has bought four trillion units. Much of this has been sent to Britain and ttus- sia under the Lease -Lend Act. The rest has been "fed" to the Ameri- cau army, navy 'and air force. Vita, min A is exceptionally valuable fon'' night flyers,. and it is also being given to people who are near-sighted. it has a remarkable effect on eyesight. Experiments have also demon- strated that shark's liver produces a remarkable oil for use in strata• sphere planes, the lubricant being unaffected by extreme or rapid changes of temperature. This oil is valuable also in the finest mech- anisms. The British Government is also using it to fortify margarine, Child Cures Fear Of Hun Air Raids Three-year-old Janet, who 'was in a Bristol hospital when it was bombed, cured herself of feat of air raids by talking to her dolls. For threeweeks after the bomb- ing Janet woke up terrified every time the sirens sounded. At the end of that time she was hoard telling her; dolls how the bombs fell the. night the hospital was hit and how the windows were shattered over them. She told the story' night after night and grad- ually her fear of the raids lessen - la. Now, Janet wakes only when the barrage is particularly heavy. Canadian Merchant Navy sea- men who brave enemy submar- ines, surface raiders and aircraft in order to transport troops and war supplies overseas; will now 'be entitled to wear the badge pic- tured above. The insignia draws attention to the fact that these` menof the merchant fleet are vire tually part of Canada's fighting forcer The government Order in Council authorizing issue of the badge states that it is to be worn by the personnel of ships of Can- adian registry "When on shore leave in civilian attire, in order that recognition may be accorded to the national importance of their contribution to the sea transport of troops, munitions and supplies; and the carriage of ex - 'porta to overseas markets." Supplies of Kapok `Frozen' By Ottawa Canadian supplies of kapok were "frozen" by the munitions depart- ment last week. Air force fliers, forced down at sea, are kept 1(fioat by the buoy- ancy of their flying suits in the lining of which is placed the life - preserving material called kapok. Most of it comes, from The Neth- erlands .East Indies and to assure that enough kapok is made avail- able for Canada's and the Allied Wraith, and for the, thousands of life jackets and floats weeded by the navy and army, all -supplies is Canada were "frozen" in au order by Alan H. Williamson, con- troller of supplies. The order prohibits any sales except, to the federal government and instructs dealers and prows - aloes to report the kind and weight of all kapok they have on hand and 011 order. THREE-PIECE WESKIT OUTFIT pea 323.2 sizes. I1 -Is With a Fashion Future By Louise Lennox Boy's styles have swept the feminine fashion field this year, exerting their influence on suits, jackets, caps and what you will, but the smartest item to be hand- ed over' to the ladies is undoubt- edly the weskit. It's trim and wearable, and at tbe same time just as flattering as anything you could ask for. It gives you the tiniest of waists, slender hips and beautiful broad shoulders. Wear it with the blouse and skirt in- cluded in the same pattern, or slip it m1 'over another blouse or a tailored dress. Style No. 3232 is designed for sizes 11, 18, 15, 17 and 19 years; 29, 31, 83, 35 and 87 bust. Size 15 requires 19'.r yards of 54 -inch fabric for skirt; 130 yards of 89 - inch fabric for :blouse; 1,'t yard of 54 -inch fabric for weskit. Send twenty cents (20c), (coin 10 preferred) for pattern to Lou- iso Lennox, Room 421, 73 Ade- laide St. West, Toronto. Write plainly your name, address and style number. Be sure to state size you wish, yY1' 4 jnc REVEL IN. WINTER At this luxurious 1,e cumin, overnight from Toronto toad Ontario, in. the 01,51- outs Lanrentlans00 rooms with or without private uuti,e , , comfortable lounges ,. , cosy hearths... excellent fable uud every up-to-date 'eonvenienee. 5 r,kl-tows and. unlit 00" on the t.ropi.rt7 • • • well marked trails , • . official ski school. ganndiHn end il:aro5een Instructors , ,all winter activities. ltestrleted' Clientele. ISklf. Ot tutee—:write; Ste, Marguerite Station, 0'.tl,. No. Watch Runs X11 Pez'te44,T me Even Railroad Time -Pieces Vary From One -Half to One Second Every Day • No watch keeps perfect time, Clarence Woodbury writes in, Am- erlcan 111agaziue: Trine' Ainerioaal raiioad watches will run from one- half to a full second fast or aloes every day, and one of the most expensive `watches you can buy— a little number which retails for around $5,000 -will be off one - eighteenth of a second every day. 1e your watch happens to .be- come magnetized by 'a dynamo or. an X-ray machine, there's a simile way to take out the juice. Expose. it to the sumo magnetic field' again, and twirl it round and round, debonairly, as you retreat from it. The same watch will keep dif- ferent time in winter and summer, indoors and out. in zero temper- ature, the average watch will lose ten secondsin twenty-four hours, and under a blazing sun 'it will gain ten. When you set your watch, turn- ing the hands backward won't hm't it a bit. -Only in striking ' clocks must the hands be moved forward. "Don't wind. it too tight or you'll break the spring!" That old warn- ing is meaningless today. The strongest man onearth couldn't wind most modern watches hard enough to break the mainsprings. Manufacturers have made them muscleproof. Tiny watches are just as aecur- ate as big ones when they're'prop- erly adjusted, but they can seldom take as much punishment. 15 you simply must•open your watch and let Junior see how the wheels go round, perform the op- eration in an air• -conditioned room. Otherwise, you may have to pay for a repair job. Infinitesimal par- ticles ,of dust Can clog the works, and if damp air gets into your watch, the moisture will condense later And may cause rust. Rust ruins more watches than. all other causes combined. The life expectancy of any good modern watch is far greater than that of its owner. If it is cleaned sand oiled regularly once. every two yeaiP, the average 21 -jewel time -piece will tick on through at least two centuries. Late Arrival Club 1' -:has Few hifteinbers An Honor to Belong to Club Whose Badge Is a Little Foot Wlth Metal Wings It's an honor to belong to the Late Arrival Club, which was start- ed not long ago in the Middle East. Yen can't become a member just. by paying a.subscription and being passed by a committee. Before you can wear kis badge, a little' boot with - metal wings, you have not only to belong to one of Lae Allied air forces operating oat there, but you have to have returned on foot from a machine which has either crashed or had to matte a forced landing. There areabout forty members in the Western Desert. The latest of these is au Austra- lian pilot. officer., :Flaviug been chased by Iota Messerschmitts, he had t'o fly his bullet -riddled machine so low to get away from them that he landed with a terrific smack, tearing oft. the under• carriage and the propeller, The shock et the bump catapulted the wrecked plane 600 feet upin the air before it finally came to rest. The pilot, considerably the worse for wear, scrambled out to find 'himself thirty miles on the wrong side of the Libyan -]Egyptian fron- tier. With a little food and a bottle of water (most of which got split on the way) lie set ant on iiia long trek, wanting only at night for there were German patrols about. Atwo ne om•lter own pAandtrolsa halt pickeddaysnimOnpof,- exhausted. He's now back with his. squadron. That's a typical ".Late Arrival." - Lard Was Answer To Shipping Space Frozen Lard Proves Best In. sulation For. Protection of Fresh Foods Chicago packers'have put over a fast one on Hitler by devising a new insulator for £cozen' meats. The insulator is itself an export, the old reliable export that hue survived most handsomely the de- cline of ^international trade in Corn Belt foodstuffs — that la,; Cre1'man submarine warfare cut seriously' into the available supply of refrigerator ships and,reiriger- ated space -on general 'cargo boats. l,{afrigerator slips are costly to build, both in time, money and in materials and skilled labor need- ed 'for- aims' and iiaunitiens, Re- frigerating machinery, takes, UP valuable cargo space. So the packers stepped in to providde. a substitute method of shipping fresh foods. As a part of that seareh, they experimented with all manner of substances to insulate shipments of frozen food.. Frozen lard proved to be the .best insulator. , Fat -hungry Britain cries for lard, so thus we have not ono bird, but a -whole flock of traffic trouble birds, killed with one inventive stone, a packaging material that is itself a food; War enters the picture of this latest triumph in preservation and transport of food. But the stun ulatioly_of war has played a great part in the development of the food industries. The .art of can- ning is a Napoleonic war baby, as are beet sugar and cheap sodas Oleomargarine is another food born in barracks.. A Boy's Solicitude An American mining engineer just back from southern Rhodesia, told about a thing he had seen in the little village of Guela. A native boy arrived there after a trek of 200 miles across the veldt carrying a 150 -pound sack of "mealie," the native food. The boy deposited the sack on the porch of the British Commissioner. He explained that he had heard that the Germans were trying to starve the English. He thought that the "mealie," if it could be delivered, would keep the King and 'Queen from going hungry for quite a long time. r St. Lawrence Starch Co. Limited